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Documentation from a police officer's camera was shown at George Floyd's murder trial: "He looked drugged"
On the third day of the trial, additional testimonies and videos came up from the day he ignited huge protests in the U.S. Documentation from the police car heard Derek Chubin justifying the violent arrest, moments after Floyd was rushed to the hospital.
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Thursday, 01 April 2021, 05:14 Updated: 06:44
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In the video: The trial of the policeman accused of murdering George Floyd begins (Photo: Reuters, Edited by Amit Simcha)
New footage from Officer Derek Chubin's body camera, charged with the murder of George Floyd, was unveiled tonight (Thursday) on the third day of the trial.
In the video, which was filmed a few moments after the evacuation to the hospital, the police officer was heard justifying the violent arrest on the grounds that Floyd was a "big guy" and was drugged.
Charles McMillan, a 61-year-old passerby who identified Chubin from the neighborhood, approached a police officer immediately after the incident and told him he did not like what he did.
"It's one person's opinion," Chubin replied.
"We had to take over this guy because he's a big guy, and he seems to be 'for something.'"
McMillan testified that he asked Floyd to listen to the cops, saying over and over again "you can't win."
As Chubin leaned in with the pressure exerted on Floyd's neck, McMillan was heard in a video begging the cop to "take your knee off his neck," to no avail.
"What I saw was wrong," he explained why he confronted Chubin after Floyd's body was evacuated, bursting into tears.
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"There was a big guy."
Documentation of the policeman in the incident (Photo: Reuters)
The video was part of extensive documentation presented and numerous testimonies heard at the police officer's trial, which together showed how Floyd's alleged attempt to pay with a counterfeit $ 20 bill at a neighborhood grocery store about a year ago turned out to be a step-by-step tragedy.
Some witnesses have blamed what they did and did not do on the way to Floyd's murder.
A grocer at a Minneapolis grocery store who suspected Floyd was trying to pay him with a counterfeit $ 20 bill testified that he "feels guilty and still has not digested" that the conversation between them ended in a difficult outcome.
"If only I had not taken the bill, all this could have been avoided," said the cashier, 19-year-old Christopher Martin.
He stopped working at the place shortly afterwards because he did not feel safe.
"What I saw was wrong."
McMillan (Photo: Reuters)
Witnesses feel guilty.
Floyd graffiti in Minneapolis, yesterday (Photo: Reuters)
Chubin, 45, is charged with unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter, and denies everything attributed to him.
The penalty imposed on a person convicted of a second-degree murder in the state of Minnesota is 40 years in prison, and up to 25 years for a third-degree murder.
But the penal guidelines state that Chubin will face 12 and a half years in prison if convicted of the charges.
Killing has a maximum penalty of ten years.
The key questions in the trial will be whether Chubin caused Floyd's death and whether his actions were reasonable.
In the indictment against Chubin for second-degree unintentional murder, prosecutors must prove that his conduct was a "material causal factor" in Floyd's death, and that Chubin did indeed commit the same offense at those moments.
For a third-degree murder, they must prove that his actions caused Floyd's death, and were done recklessly and without regard to human life.
The charge of manslaughter requires proof that Chubin negligently caused Floyd's death.
Floyd's autopsy revealed that fentanyl and methamphetamine were found in his blood, but the cause of death determined in the autopsy was cardiac arrest, restraint and pressure on the neck.
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