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As Derek Chauvin’s trial progresses, more and more have come to testify in what has become the cornerstone trial of the century. Derek Chauvin has pleaded not guilty for the murder of George Floyd, a middle-aged black man (46) whom he knelt on his neck until he passed out.
His lawyers claim that Floyd passed due to an overdose of fentanyl found in his blood during a post mortem
Pictures of an ambulance trying frantically to resuscitate an already unconscious Floyd was shared with the jury where a Paramedic, Seth Bravinder disclosed that delayed medical treatment could have weakened Floyd’s chance at survival.
Some of the testifiers included Floyd’s girlfriend, Courteney who in a very tearful testimony claimed the officers in Chauvin’s company were just as guilty of the murder as Chauvin himself.
The lady who captured the footage of Floyd’s debilitating last moments who claimed she felt it could have very well been her uncle or someone closely related being assaulted like that and more recently, the head of Minneapolis Police Department, Lt. Richard Zimmerman.
Lt. Zimmerman not only condemned Chauvin’s use of force against Floyd but deemed it as unnecessary. He has served with the Minneapolis Dept since 1985 making him the longest serving officer on the team.
He explained that because the handcuffs stretch the muscles back through your chest, it becomes more difficult to breathe, more so the “prone position” which Chauvin used on George Floyd had never been taught in all his years of service to be used on a culprit. He described the combination as a deadly force. Read his statement below:
“That would be the top tier, the deadly force,” he said. “Because if your knee is on someone’s neck, that can kill them.”
“Totally unnecessary,” he said. “First of all, pulling him down to the ground facedown and putting your knee on the neck for that amount of time is just uncalled for. I saw no reason why the officers felt they were in danger, if that’s what they felt. And that’s what they would have to feel to use that type of force.”
Lt. Zimmerman