NEW YORK — A second fired police officer charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights during his 2020 fatal arrest testified on Wednesday and for the first time publicly explained why he helped his then-senior officer Derek Chauvin hold the handcuffed Black man to the pavement even after he was unable to detect a pulse.
J. Alexander Kueng, 28, took the witness stand in the high-profile federal trial after his co-defendant, Tou Thao, testified it was necessary to keep Floyd pinned to the ground, despite him being unconscious because he could"come back and fight again.”Assistant U.S. Attorney LeeAnne Bell peppered Thao with questions on why he never attempted to get Chauvin, Kueng and a third officer, Thomas Lane, off of Floyd or step in to provide Floyd with life-saving medical assistance.
"If I wanted to see officers that citizens deserve, I should step up and be that person," Kueng testified Kueng testified that he and Lane, who was also a rookie, were the first officers to respond to a complaint that Floyd attempted to use a phony $20 bill at a Cup Foods store in south Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
He said that when Chauvin and Thao arrived at the scene, they decided to remove Floyd from the police vehicle and place him prone on the street."He was my senior officer and I trusted his advice," Kueng said. Video of the incident showed Floyd repeatedly complaining that he could not breathe, but Kueng said he was trained that if someone can talk they can breathe.
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