(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 30 MAR - The more the crowd of passersby asked him to let go, the more agent Derek Chauvin, with his hands in his pockets and an almost mocking air, with his knee pressing on George Floyd's neck.
The dramatic testimonies of the trial for the death of the 46-year-old African American who became the symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement follow one another in the courtroom of Minneapolis, with hundreds of people gathered in the street as a sign of solidarity towards the victim's family.
Among the people heard by the prosecution and the defense and that on May 5, 2002, a nine-year-old child also witnessed the events, who testified without ever being framed by the cameras: "The nurses who intervened should have pushed away the policeman who continued to block Floyd's neck, instead - he remembers - they kindly asked him only if he could get up ... But he remained still.
Donald Williams, martial arts instructor, bursts into tears who said he called 911 to report what was happening: "An officer is killing a person who was not resisting arrest," he yelled into the phone.
"I realized I was witnessing a murder," he remembers now, barely holding back his emotion.
Chauvin - jacket, tie and mask on his face - listens impassively to the left of his lawyer who, in the interrogation of witnesses, tries above all to show that it was not the grip on the neck of the former policeman that killed Floyd.
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