Despite powerful video evidence, a defense attorney contends that George Floyd died from a drug overdose and heart problems.
Video seen around the world shows him on the pavement, his neck pinned beneath the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin, pleading for his life —"I can't breathe" — until his body goes limp.Chauvin was charged with murder and three other officers — Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng, who both helped hold down Floyd, and Tou Thao, who kept onlookers at bay — were charged as accomplices.
The body camera videos show that well before Floyd was pinned to the ground, he told the officers at least six times:"I can't breathe." Story continuesProtests quickly spread, becoming the largest in U.S. history and extending to more than 60 countries in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “If they would have approached him respectfully, I think things would have turned out very differently,” she said.
In his July 7 motion, Gray included Minneapolis police training material on how to deal with an uncooperative suspect in handcuffs. A restraint position illustrated in a photograph closely resembles the method the officers used. George Parry, a former federal and state prosecutor who once headed a police brutality and misconduct unit of the Philadelphia district attorney’s office, suggested that would not be difficult.
A second postmortem examination, led by Dr. Michael Baden, an expert hired by the Floyd family, concluded that he was killed by asphyxiation. The prosecution doesn't need to prove that Chauvin intended to kill Floyd, only that he committed a felony assault and in the process caused the death.
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