The trial of the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd during his arrest on May 25, 2020 opened on Monday to particularly intense public and media attention.
The debates began with the release by the prosecutor of the video which revealed the case last spring, and which summarizes the indictment.
In this little film shot on a cell phone by a passerby during Floyd's arrest, we see him for 8 minutes and 46 seconds pinned to the ground while the police officer Derek Chauvin keeps his knees on his neck and on his back.
The almost unbearable images of his agony, Floyd's pleas, "
I can't breathe!"
», Had aroused a huge wave of emotion.
Distributed via social networks, the images of this black man dying under the knee of a white police officer had also taken on a symbolic dimension.
They had spread virally, triggering a wave of protests and riots against the
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