The officer who had his knee against George Floyd's neck dismissed Floyd's plea for air.
As George Floyd told Minneapolis police officers that he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times in the moments before he died, the officer whoagainst Floyd’s neck dismissed his pleas, saying “it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk,” according to transcripts of body camera video recordings made public Wednesday.
Gray painted an image of a rookie officer who trusted Chauvin, a senior officer, after Floyd had been acting erratically, struggling and hurting himself during an arrest. Gray said that once Floyd was on the ground, Lane had asked twice if officers should roll Floyd on his side, and Chauvin said no.Gray also submitted the body camera video, but that was not immediately made public.
Gray wrote that Floyd started to thrash back and forth and was “hitting his face on the glass in the squad and began to bleed from his mouth.” Officers brought Floyd to the ground and, “the plan was to restrain him so he couldn’t move and hurt himself anymore,” Gray wrote. As part of his court filing, Gray also submitted a transcript of Lane’s interview with state investigators andmaterials on restraint holds. Gray wrote that all of the evidence exonerates his client and that it is not “fair or reasonable” for Lane to stand trial.
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