MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police camera video of Minneapolis officers arresting George Floyd was released to the public Monday and is available for publication.
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The footage became available Monday after a Hennepin County judge ordered it released. News organizations including The Associated Press had already viewed and written about the footage, and also pressed for the right to publish it.
The video comes from the body cameras of former Officers Thomas Lane and J. Kueng. The footage shows Floyd pleading with the officers as they struggle to place him in a squad car in the minutes before his death on May 25.
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Floyd, a handcuffed Black man, died after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for nearly eight minutes. Floyd’s death sparked protests worldwide.
Police were called to a south Minneapolis convenience store, where Floyd was suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill. Lane’s video shows Lane pulling his gun when Floyd does not immediately show his hands.
“Please don’t shoot me, man,” a crying Floyd says. “I just lost my mom, man. I’m so sorry.”
Floyd tells the officers he is not resisting but that he is claustrophobic and has just had COVID-19. Floyd pleads that he cannot breathe, and says “Momma” as he is held on the ground.
Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. Lane, Kueng and another officer, Tou Thao, are charged with aiding and abetting. All four were fired.
It shows that he was high on drugs and claimed he couldn’t breath before anyone touched him and then he resisted arrest, not good for the prosecution, they overcharged and now they will pay.
The guy had it coming
Well, I hope this will help us more clearly understand what went on here.
I’m happy that video came out like that everybody would know that it’s not about black lives matters it’s about an agenda against Trump
All this over a fake dollar bill?! The lowlife cops had to murder an American citizen because of this? Is counterfeit money the crime of the century? Very very difficult to watch. There is more to policing than writing parking tickets.
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