New Transcripts Detail Last Moments for George Floyd, Report

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New Transcripts Detail Last Moments for George Floyd, Report
New Transcripts Detail Last Moments for George Floyd, Report

Newly released transcripts of Minneapolis police body-camera footage filed in state court Tuesday shed more light on the final moments before Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who faces second-degree murder and manslaughter charges, killed George Floyd in May. The transcripts were filed as part of an effort by another officer, Thomas Lane, to have charges that he aided and abetted Floyd’s murder thrown out, The New York Times reports.

One of the more harrowing moments in the transcripts occurs when Floyd, who was arrested on suspicion of using counterfeit money at a nearby store, was on the ground with Chauvin’s knee on his neck pleading for his life, a scene captured on video by a passerby. The new transcripts reveal that after Floyd said the officers were going to kill him, Chauvin responded by telling him to “stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.”

Later, Lane, who was helping Chauvin restrain Floyd, said he was worried Floyd was having a medical emergency. “Well, that’s why we got the ambulance coming,” Chauvin replied, as shown in one of the transcripts. Read more at The New York Times.

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