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CHAUVIN BODY-CAMERA FOOTAGE SHOWN FOR FIRST TIME AFTER WITNESSES SPEAK OF GUILT,
HELPLESSNESS


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 * Jury sees new footage from Chauvin’s body camera
   
   6:04 p.m.

 * Body-camera footage from three of Chauvin’s former colleagues shown
   
   5:24 p.m.

 * New video shows Chauvin telling witness he has to ‘control’ Floyd
   
   4:02 p.m.

 * Witness McMillian breaks down after re-watching Floyd video
   
   3:01 p.m.

 * Witness says he told Floyd to comply with police, saying, ‘You can’t win’
   
   2:59 p.m.

 * Days before Floyd’s death, a witness says he spoke to Chauvin in the
   neighborhood
   
   2:58 p.m.

 * Witness Martin says he thought he was doing Floyd ‘a favor’ by accepting $20
   bill
   
   12:47 p.m.

 * Cup Foods employee recalls seeing ‘motionless, limp’ Floyd: ‘This could have
   been avoided’
   
   12:25 p.m.

 * Store clerk testifies that Floyd ‘didn’t want’ to be confronted about $20
   bill
   
   12:17 p.m.

 * Trial takes brief recess after female juror stood up in need of a break
   
   11:33 a.m.

 * Surveillance video shows Cup Foods employee taking Floyd’s $20 bill. The
   clerk said he figured it was fake.
   
   11:22 a.m.

 * Witness testifies that Floyd needed immediate medical attention
   
   10:51 a.m.

 * Witness Hansen to resume testimony day after being reprimanded by judge
   
   10:30 a.m.

 * Rep. Marilyn Strickland says Derek Chauvin’s trial will be a ‘proof-point’
   
   10:02 a.m.

 * Chauvin’s lawyer asked a Black witness about anger, conjuring centuries-old
   tropes, scholars say
   
   9:35 a.m.

 * Jury sees new footage from Chauvin’s body camera
   
   6:04 p.m.

 * Body-camera footage from three of Chauvin’s former colleagues shown
   
   5:24 p.m.

 * New video shows Chauvin telling witness he has to ‘control’ Floyd
   
   4:02 p.m.

 * Witness McMillian breaks down after re-watching Floyd video
   
   3:01 p.m.

 * Witness says he told Floyd to comply with police, saying, ‘You can’t win’
   
   2:59 p.m.

 * Days before Floyd’s death, a witness says he spoke to Chauvin in the
   neighborhood
   
   2:58 p.m.

 * Witness Martin says he thought he was doing Floyd ‘a favor’ by accepting $20
   bill
   
   12:47 p.m.

 * Cup Foods employee recalls seeing ‘motionless, limp’ Floyd: ‘This could have
   been avoided’
   
   12:25 p.m.

 * Store clerk testifies that Floyd ‘didn’t want’ to be confronted about $20
   bill
   
   12:17 p.m.

 * Trial takes brief recess after female juror stood up in need of a break
   
   11:33 a.m.

 * Surveillance video shows Cup Foods employee taking Floyd’s $20 bill. The
   clerk said he figured it was fake.
   
   11:22 a.m.

 * Witness testifies that Floyd needed immediate medical attention
   
   10:51 a.m.

 * Witness Hansen to resume testimony day after being reprimanded by judge
   
   10:30 a.m.

 * Rep. Marilyn Strickland says Derek Chauvin’s trial will be a ‘proof-point’
   
   10:02 a.m.

 * Chauvin’s lawyer asked a Black witness about anger, conjuring centuries-old
   tropes, scholars say
   
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Derek Chauvin’s body-camera footage from George Floyd’s fatal arrest
Body-camera footage from former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was
presented in multiple clips as evidence in his trial on March 31.




Body-camera footage from former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was
presented in multiple clips as evidence in his trial on March 31. (The
Washington Post)
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March 31, 2021 at 6:29 p.m. EDT
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Prosecutors on Wednesday showed footage from Minneapolis police officer Derek
Chauvin’s body camera publicly for the first time as the third day of testimony
in Chauvin’s murder trial brought more anguish from witnesses, who said they
wished they could have saved George Floyd.



The new body-camera footage showed Chauvin briefly putting his black-gloved
hands around Floyd’s neck in May as he and another officer tried to force the
man inside a vehicle. “We’ve got to control this guy because he is a sizable
guy,” Chauvin told an upset witness later.

Earlier Wednesday, a teenage store clerk testified that “this could have been
avoided” if he had not taken a counterfeit $20 bill from Floyd. A neighborhood
resident started sobbing while re-watching Floyd’s cries for his mother, telling
the court: “I feel helpless. I understand him.”



Here’s what to know:

 * Charles McMillian, the witness who started crying while video footage played,
   said he had spoken with Chauvin five days before Floyd’s killing. “I told
   him, like I tell all, ‘Officer, at the end of the day, you go home to your
   family safe and let the next person go home to their family safe,’” McMillian
   said.
 * There was a brief recess in the trial after a juror stood up and waved her
   hand in the middle of witness testimony, possibly signaling an illness.
 * The store clerk, Chris Martin, also told Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson, “I
   thought that George didn’t really know that it was a fake bill.” The Cup
   Foods employee said he thought he was doing Floyd “a favor” by accepting the
   $20.




JURY SEES NEW FOOTAGE FROM CHAUVIN’S BODY CAMERA

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Prosecutors showed new footage from Chauvin’s body camera on Wednesday.

The clips began with him driving to the scene of Floyd’s arrest and then getting
out as colleagues struggled with Floyd in front of Cup Foods. Chauvin walks up
as his fellow officers are trying to get Floyd into a vehicle. Floyd, who is
handcuffed, says he is claustrophobic.

Chauvin walks to the other side of the car and briefly puts his black-gloved
hands around Floyd’s neck as he and another officer try to force Floyd inside.

As they continue to struggle with Floyd, Chauvin’s body camera drops to the
ground.

The jury had just seen footage from body-worn cameras of his colleagues, who are
also criminally charged for their actions on May 25. Earlier Wednesday, they saw
another clip from Chauvin’s body-worn camera — footage from later on in the day,
as the officer spoke with a distraught witness.

Outside the hearing of the jury, Nelson, the defense attorney, noted that “the
state has shortened certain body-worn cameras.”

Nelson said he wants to present longer, uncut versions of the video.


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BODY-CAMERA FOOTAGE FROM THREE OF CHAUVIN’S FORMER COLLEAGUES SHOWN

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Prosecutors on Wednesday showed the jury body-camera footage from former
Minneapolis police officers Thomas Lane, Alexander Keung and Tou Thao that was
released last summer. All three were fired along with Chauvin and are charged
with aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter.

Body-camera footage shows struggle leading to George Floyd’s fatal police
encounter

The footage began with Lane confronting Floyd in a parked vehicle, pointing a
gun and telling Floyd to put his hands up without explaining what the officer
was investigating.

A distraught Floyd begs officers not to kill him: “Please don’t shoot me, man,”
he pleads from the car. “I just lost my mom, man.”

Officers try for several minutes to get Floyd in a vehicle as he struggles and
protests that he is claustrophobic.

“I’m not a bad guy,” Floyd says.

The video also captures Floyd protesting as he’s pinned to the ground in
handcuffs, saying he cannot breathe and telling his mom he loves her.

The prosecution played the video after calling as a witness Lt. James Jeffrey
Rugel, who has spent more than three decades with the Minneapolis Police
Department and oversees the body-camera video program.

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NEW VIDEO SHOWS CHAUVIN TELLING WITNESS HE HAS TO ‘CONTROL’ FLOYD

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On Wednesday, prosecutors showed never-before-seen footage from Chauvin’s body
camera, in which he is heard talking to McMillian, an eyewitness who urged Floyd
to cooperate with the police by saying, “You can’t win.”

In a brief interaction, the video shows McMillian telling Chauvin he “does not
respect” what the officer just did and tells him to go home to his family.

“All right, that’s one person’s opinion,” Chauvin said.

“But we’ve got to control this guy because he is a sizable guy,” he said. “Looks
like he’s probably on something,” suggesting Floyd had taken drugs.

Chauvin’s body camera had fallen off during a physical struggle with Floyd but
was later found underneath the car. The video shown to the jury Wednesday is
footage from the moment Chauvin had put the body camera back on.

Prosecutors asked McMillian why he felt the need to speak to Chauvin.

“Because what he was doing was wrong,” he responded.

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WITNESS MCMILLIAN BREAKS DOWN AFTER RE-WATCHING FLOYD VIDEO

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In testimony on March 31, witness Charles McMillian described feeling "helpless"
the night George Floyd died. (The Washington Post)

Witness Charles McMillian started sobbing Wednesday as video played showing
Floyd repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe and calling for his deceased mother.

“Mama! Mama! Mama,” Floyd cried out on the video. “Oh my God. I can’t believe
this.”

McMillian dropped his head down and hit the desk before him with a clenched fist
of anguish as he wiped away tears from his behind his white-framed lenses.

“I feel helpless,” McMillian said, explaining his reaction to reliving the last
moments Floyd would be alive. “I understand him.”

There was then a brief recess before the court was scheduled to reconvene.

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WITNESS SAYS HE TOLD FLOYD TO COMPLY WITH POLICE, SAYING, ‘YOU CAN’T WIN’

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As Floyd was being detained by police, witness Charles McMillian, 61, said
Wednesday that he told him: “Get on in the car because you can’t win.”

McMillian said he was trying to make the situation with Floyd easier based on
his own interactions with police.

He said he understood that once placed in a police car, “You’re done.”

Floyd can be heard in the video saying that he’s scared and claustrophobic as
officers continued to force him in the car.

McMillian can be heard off to the side telling Floyd he was going to have a
heart attack based on how he was responding to officers.

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DAYS BEFORE FLOYD’S DEATH, A WITNESS SAYS HE SPOKE TO CHAUVIN IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD

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Witness Charles McMillian testified Wednesday that he had interacted with
Chauvin around the neighborhood in the days before Floyd’s death.

McMillian, 61, said he met Chauvin five days before the incident at Cup Foods
and offered some advice.

“I told him, like I tell all, ‘Officer, at the end of the day, you go home to
your family safe and let the next person go home to their family safe,’ "
McMillian said to prosecutors. “I had seen him in the community prior to then.”

He is said to be the first witness to acknowledge recognizing or interacting
with Chauvin before May 25.

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WITNESS MARTIN SAYS HE THOUGHT HE WAS DOING FLOYD ‘A FAVOR’ BY ACCEPTING $20
BILL

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During cross-examination with Chauvin’s defense team Wednesday, the Cup Foods
store clerk testified that he was doing Floyd “a favor” by accepting a $20 bill
the employee figured to be fake.

“I thought that George didn’t really know that it was a fake bill, so I thought
I’d be doing him a favor,” Chris Martin told Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson.

Martin’s testimony has largely focused on the surveillance footage of Floyd’s
actions in the store and the bill he handed the clerk when he attempted to buy
cigarettes on May 25. Martin told prosecutors he thought Floyd’s death could
have been avoided if he had not accepted the $20 bill.

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CUP FOODS EMPLOYEE RECALLS SEEING ‘MOTIONLESS, LIMP’ FLOYD: ‘THIS COULD HAVE
BEEN AVOIDED’

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In witness testimony on March 31, former Cup Foods employee Christopher Martin
described the night George Floyd died. (The Washington Post)

Minutes after he tried speaking with Floyd about what he figured was a
counterfeit bill used at Cup Foods on May 25, Chris Martin testified, he came
outside the store to see Chauvin resting his knee on the “motionless, limp”
Floyd.

“I saw Derek’s knee on George’s neck on the ground,” Martin said to prosecutors.
“George was motionless, limp.”

When Martin first saw the events outside the store, he testified, he called his
mother to tell her not to come down from their home above Cup Foods. Then he
started filming the incident — a recording he said he did not keep.

Martin recalled noticing the route the ambulance took leaving the store. He said
that because paramedics were taking the long way to the hospital, that had
indicated to him that Floyd had died.

The clerk expressed regret Wednesday for a death he said he believes stemmed
from their exchange inside the store.

“If I would have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided,” he
said.

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STORE CLERK TESTIFIES THAT FLOYD ‘DIDN’T WANT’ TO BE CONFRONTED ABOUT $20 BILL

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Chris Martin, a store clerk at Cup Foods, said Floyd appeared to not want to
have an interaction with him about the $20 bill Martin figured to be fake.

“He just seemed like he didn’t, like, want this to happen,” Martin told the
court, adding, “He was just kind of like, ‘Why is it happening?’”

Martin said he did not say much to Floyd directly, speaking mainly with the
person in the passenger seat of Floyd’s vehicle, parked across the street from
the store.

“Really, he kind of shook his head,” Martin recalled of the moment, referring to
Floyd.


TRIAL TAKES BRIEF RECESS AFTER FEMALE JUROR STOOD UP IN NEED OF A BREAK

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A female juror caused a brief recess in the trial Wednesday after she stood up
and waved her hand in the middle of witness testimony.

It’s unclear whether the juror is ill. According to a pool report, the woman
stood up and gestured toward the door.

The interruption came as Chris Martin, a Cup Foods clerk, was testifying about
Floyd’s actions inside the store that led to Chauvin and other Minneapolis
police officers arriving on the scene.


SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS CUP FOODS EMPLOYEE TAKING FLOYD’S $20 BILL. THE CLERK
SAID HE FIGURED IT WAS FAKE.

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By Timothy Bella11:22 a.m.
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Prosecutors on Wednesday morning presented surveillance footage in Chauvin’s
trial from Cup Foods that showed Floyd inside the store in the minutes before he
died in police custody.

Chris Martin, a store clerk at Cup Foods, testified that he briefly chatted with
Floyd about him playing football, immediately noticing his height. Martin said
Floyd had come into the store for some repairs on his phone.

Later, Martin testified that he sold Floyd a pack of cigarettes. When he held up
the $20 bill Floyd handed him, the store clerk said he guessed the money was
counterfeit because it had a blue hue to it. Under the store’s policy, accepting
counterfeit money meant it would be taken out of the clerk’s paycheck, but
Martin took it anyway.

Martin recounted to prosecutors that his manager “told us to go out to the
vehicle and ask him to come inside to discuss what just happened.”

Shortly thereafter, Chauvin and police arrived.


WITNESS TESTIFIES THAT FLOYD NEEDED IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION

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Hansen’s testimony concluded quickly Wednesday, with the witness saying Floyd
needed immediate medical attention while he was detained by Chauvin.

In just one question during cross-examination, Hansen, a firefighter who was off
duty at the time, said she had not shown proof of her occupation.

Hansen’s testimony wrapped up what had been an emotional exchange with Nelson
and Cahill on Tuesday.


WITNESS HANSEN TO RESUME TESTIMONY DAY AFTER BEING REPRIMANDED BY JUDGE

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Hansen, the firefighter who was reprimanded by Cahill over an answer to
Chauvin’s defense team, will resume her testimony Wednesday morning as witness
statements continue.

Hansen, 27, tearfully told the court Tuesday that she could not help Floyd in
his last minutes of life, saying officers on the scene did not permit her to
provide any medical assistance to the 46-year-old even when she identified
herself as a firefighter.

She told the court she was “totally distressed” by not being allowed to help
Floyd.

“I would have been able to provide medical attention to the best of my
abilities,” a uniformed Hansen told the court in tears. “And this human was
denied that right.”

Nelson, Chauvin’s attorney, mentioned Tuesday several inconsistencies between
Hansen’s testimony and her first statement given to police after the incident,
suggesting that the stress of the situation could have altered her memory.

When Nelson asked her to describe the emotions of people at the scene, she gave
a biting response.

“I don’t know if you’ve seen anybody be killed, but it’s upsetting,” she said.

This resulted in Cahill reprimanding Hansen in court.

“You’ll not argue with counsel,” he said. “They have the right to ask questions.
Your job is to answer.”


REP. MARILYN STRICKLAND SAYS DEREK CHAUVIN’S TRIAL WILL BE A ‘PROOF-POINT’

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Rep. Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.) says the trial of Derek Chauvin will be a
litmus test on whether we can trust institutions to do the right thing. “This is
going to be a proof-point of whether or not people can have their faith restored
in our government systems.” Former Housing and Urban Development secretary
Julián Castro added, “I am hopeful it is an inflection point. Also, of course,
hopeful that this defendant is going to be found guilty because I’m afraid of
what’s going to happen if he’s not.” (Washington Post Live)

Rep. Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.) says the trial of Derek Chauvin will be a
litmus test on whether we can trust institutions to do the right thing.

“This is going to be a proof-point of whether or not people can have their faith
restored in our government systems,” she said.

Former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro added, “I am
hopeful it is an inflection point. Also, of course, hopeful that this defendant
is going to be found guilty because I’m afraid of what’s going to happen if he’s
not.”









THE DEREK CHAUVIN TRIAL: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The latest: First Chauvin juror to speak publicly recounts stress of coming to
court to ‘watch a Black man die’

Photos: Scenes from across the U.S. as verdict was announced

Reaction: The private grief of George Floyd’s girlfriend | With a verdict,
troubled reflections | Floyd’s family members celebrate verdict, vow to fight on
for racial justice

The jurors: The people who decided Derek Chauvin’s fate

Video timeline: How George Floyd’s death unfolded in Minneapolis

George Floyd’s America: Examining systemic racism through the lens of his life

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