Video released Friday shows one of the ex-Minneapolis Police Department officers charged in George Floyd's death telling investigators his job was to watch the 'hostile' crowd nearby — not the deadly arrest.
Thao said his officer colleagues grew visibly tired during the arrest and he never mentioned Chauvin's specific restraint methods, that Floyd said he could not breathe or that several bystanders urged the men to see why he had eventually stopped moving altogether."They're trying to get control of his body," Thao said."I could tell the officers on the ground were getting tired. Everyone's breathing hard ...
"I don't think he realized the gravity of the situation — potential situation," Thao said, before addressing questions about why there was such urgency to arrest Floyd for such a minor crime."First, um, this wasn't our call. We were just backup officers, so we don't — I don't have the back information as far as what happened prior to us arriving."reported, it is one hour into the video before Thao discussed what Floyd was saying while he was restrained.
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