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George Floyd's death trial: Police chief incriminates Derek Chauvin

2021-04-06T13:13:35.594Z


In the George Floyd Trial, the Minneapolis Police Chief incriminated the accused heavily. His violent actions do not comply with the rules of the police.


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In the process of the violent death of George Floyd, the police chief of Minneapolis testified on Monday - and charged the accused ex-police officer Derek Chauvin.

This had violated the rules of the police when he kneeled for minutes on George Floyd.

Medaria Arradondo, Minneapolis Police Commissioner


“It has to be objectively appropriate.

One has to consider the circumstances, the threat posed by the officers, the threat to others and the severity of the action.

This is not part of our policy, not part of our training and should not be tolerated. "

The defendant arrested Floyd on May 25, 2020 on counterfeit money charges and, according to prosecutors, pushed the 46-year-old's knee back for nine minutes and 29 seconds, despite Floyd repeatedly saying he was breathless.

Steven Schleicher, Public Prosecutor


"When do you think the restraint should have ended?"

Medaria Arradondo, Minneapolis Police Commissioner

"As soon as Mr. Floyd, and that's based on the videotape I watched, as soon as Mr. Floyd

stopped fighting,


and certainly as soon as he was in distress and said that, it should have been stopped."

George Floyd was later pronounced dead in a hospital.

Bradford Langenfeld, the emergency doctor at the time, reported that he was brought in with a cardiac arrest.

The paramedics hadn't informed him that anyone had tried to resuscitate Floyd.

Police chief Arrandondo also said that he had not seen any attempts at resuscitation by the police on the video images - this, too, was against the rules.

The ex-police officer Derek Chauvin has to answer in court, among other things, for "second degree murder", which is roughly equivalent to serious manslaughter and can be punished with up to 40 years in prison.

The white ex-police officer rejects all allegations.

Source: spiegel

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