• Police body camera footage of #George_Floyd murder released - World Socialist Web Site
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/floy-j17.html
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    On Wednesday, a Hennepin County Judge allowed the public to view new video evidence in the May 25 police murder of George Floyd involving four Minneapolis, Minnesota police officers. According to various news outlets, the footage does not show Floyd acting aggressively toward officers or threatening them.

    The footage comes from body cameras worn by officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, and shows officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck for nine and a half minutes, a minute more than previously thought. Floyd struggled to breathe, and said “please” to officers 50 times before he died.

    When Lane asked that Floyd be rolled onto his side after he is seen begging for help, Chauvin can be heard saying, “just leave him.” Lane entered the videos as evidence in a bid to have the charges against him dropped. Lane, who held Floyd’s legs during the killing, has been charged with aiding and abetting Chauvin, who has been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter.

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