“I don’t know, you can call me a snitch if you want to, but we have the cameras up,' a 911 dispatcher told a police sergeant. 'They got something out of the back of the squad, and all of them sat on this man.'
MINNEAPOLIS – A 911 dispatcher who was apparently watching in real time as a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into the neck of George Floyd called a supervisor to tell him what she saw, not caring if it made her look like a “snitch,” according to a recording of the call made public Monday.
“Yeah, they haven’t said anything, unless it’s just a takedown which doesn’t count,” the sergeant said. “But … I’ll find out.” Floyd, a Black man who was handcuffed, died May 25 after Derek Chauvin, a white officer, used his knee to pin Floyd to the ground. Chauvin, who kept his knee on Floyd’s neck even after he said he couldn’t breathe and stopped moving, has been charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.
The 911 transcripts from two bystanders who called police were also made public Monday. One is from a bystander who said an officer “pretty much just killed this guy that wasn’t resisting arrest. He had his knee on the dude’s neck the whole time.”
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