Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng laughed at a joke made by Derek Chauvin while restraining George Floyd, according to testimony Thursday.
Citing body camera video transcripts, Assistant US Attorney Manda Sertich asked Kueng during cross-examination what he was laughing at on video. Kueng told the jury that a few days earlier, he and Chauvin had responded to an incident at a hospital involving a patient who was restrained and yelling that he could not breathe.After a nurse had said,"it takes a lot of oxygen," Chauvin said that he would use that line. Kueng referred to it as"a brief moment of levity.
"A courtroom sketch of J. Alexander Kueng testifying on February 17, 2022."The senior officer must have been trained in it at some point," Kueng continued, referring to Chauvin pressing his knee on Floyd's neck. Sertich then attempted to show a portion of Thao's bodycam video showing the scene about one minute into Floyd's restraint.
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