[11]:6:35[15]:7:43[7] At 8:32, firefighters arrived at Cup Foods;[11]:6:56[15]:7:56 according to their report, the police officers gave no clear information regarding Floyd's condition or whereabouts, which delayed their ability to find the ambulance. Mr. Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, announced in June that Mr. Lane, Mr. Thao and Mr. Kueng had been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” Mr. Trump said. Hundreds of people,[138][139][140][141] then marched to the 3rd Precinct of the Minneapolis Police. A paramedic arrived and reached under the officer’s knee, feeling for a pulse on the man’s neck. [11]:2:22[15]:2:33 [7][8][9] Two police officers, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, assisted Chauvin in restraining Floyd, while another officer, Tou Thao, prevented bystanders from interfering with the arrest and intervening as events unfolded. According to criminal complaints filed against the officers by state prosecutors, Floyd was "calm" and said "thank you". [202], Conspiracy theories began spreading soon after Floyd's death. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general who is overseeing the case, said in a statement that he disagreed with the judge’s ruling and that he thought all four former officers should be tried together. "[82] Hours later, witness and security camera video circulating on the internet showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck. Mr. Floyd began saying repeatedly that he could not breathe. [151][152][153], The protests were initially peaceful, but later there was vandalism of stores; at the 3rd Precinct police station windows were broken and fires set. A fired Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd will be tried separately from three former colleagues facing lesser charges, the judge overseeing the trial ruled Tuesday. In 2014, a man claimed Thao handcuffed him without cause, threw him to the ground, and punched, kicked, and kneed him; the man's teeth were broken and he was hospitalized. [15]:5:15 A passerby yelled to Floyd, "Well, get up, get in the car, man", and Floyd, still handcuffed and face down on the pavement, responded, "I can't", while Chauvin's knee remained on his neck. [11]:4:10 Images on television and social media had captured businesses being lit on fire and people carrying goods out of a vandalized store. [65] Still handcuffed, he fell to the pavement. "; Floyd answered, "I can't breathe". In total, a five-mile stretch of Minneapolis sustained extraordinary damage. [124] However, Hennepin County Attorney Michael O. 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On Nov. 4, a Hennepin County judge ruled that all four officers could be tried together, rejecting a motion filed by each defense lawyer requesting the case be tried separately in suburban or rural Minnesota. [39][44] Six complaints had been filed against Thao, none resulting in disciplinary action. [101][102], On May 29, 2020, Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, and held at Oak Park Heights state prison. [50] Kueng is black[50] and Lane is white. A fourth office's murder charge was upgraded. Burch, John Eligon, Neil MacFarquhar, Manny Fernandez and Kwame Opam. [110][113] On October 22, 2020, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill dismissed the third degree murder charge against Chauvin, but also denied Chauvin's motion to dismiss the other charges. 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[126][127] On June 5, the Minneapolis City Council authorized the mayor to enter a restraining order with the State of Minnesota banning chokeholds and neck restraints, requiring police officers to intervene against other officers' use of excessive force, and requiring authorization from the police chief or other designate before using crowd-control weapons such as chemical agents and rubber bullets. After the release of the initial video, demonstrators poured into Minneapolis streets for several nights to protest. [7][15]:4:06 At 8:20, a witness across the street began recording video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck, Kueng applying pressure to Floyd's torso, and Lane applying pressure to Floyd's legs, while Thao stood nearby. After a two-year layoff, he resumed work for the police in 2012. civil rights investigation. Three former Minneapolis police officers were criminally charged Wednesday in connection with the death of George Floyd in their custody. [47][49] Kueng and Lane had trained together,[50] and were in their first week as Minneapolis police officers when Floyd was killed. [7] After several minutes passed Floyd stopped speaking. [92][87] The report states that on April 3 Floyd had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but does not list it as a fatal or other significant condition. Prosecutors said in court documents that Mr. Chauvin had used neck and upper body restraints during at least seven previous arrests. GOP House Candidate Insists George Floyd Killing Was Staged LORD HELP US Winnie Heartstrong has put out a 23-page document laying out a series of incoherent conspiracy theories about Floyd’s death. You're enjoying it. 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[31], George Perry Floyd (aged 46) was a black American born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and raised in the Third Ward[32] of Houston, Texas. But to be surprised by it is a privilege African Americans do not have. [11]:6:56, Floyd was pronounced dead at 9:25 at the Hennepin County Medical Center emergency room. Court filings offered indications of Mr. Chauvin’s defense: that he arrived late to the scene and that drugs found in Mr. Floyd’s system most likely caused his death, not Mr. Chauvin’s knee. was a 44-year-old police officer in the Minneapolis Police Department. State officials said that a series of errors and misjudgments — including the Minneapolis police’s decision to abandon a precinct on May 28 that protesters overtook and burned — had allowed demonstrators to create what Gov. In 2009, Floyd was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. [15]:7:17 Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck for almost a minute after the ambulance arrived, despite Floyd being silent and motionless. But a combination of circumstances, timing and the context of the moment turned them into enduring figures. By May 29, protesters had again overwhelmed law enforcement. Mr. Floyd died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by an officer’s knee in an episode that was captured on video, touching off nationwide protests. Prosecutors later requested that the judge reverse the decision. [82] The four officers were briefly placed on paid administrative leave[85] before being fired later that day. The trial of Mr. Chauvin, 44, who has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and second-degree murder, will begin on March 8 with jury selection, and prosecutors must begin making their case against the former officer by March 29, according to the order from Judge Peter A. Cahill of the Hennepin County District Court. [130][131], The family of George Floyd filed a lawsuit in federal court in July 2020 against the City of Minneapolis and the four former police officers involved in the killing. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress.” The statement said that the officers had called for an ambulance. [165] A public viewing and a family memorial was held in Raeford, North Carolina on June 6, near Floyd's hometown. Photograph by Lorie Shaull, Wikimedia Commons. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while being arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit bill. A few days after George Floyd’s killing, Jaspreet Kaur was in the living room of her family’s home in Ceres, a city of roughly 45,000 in California’s agricultural heartland, the Central Valley. The lawsuit did not specify the amount of monetary damages the family sought. “In the moment where we’re at, in a moment that is so volatile, anything we do to add fuel to that fire is really, really challenging,” he told reporters. After Mr. Chauvin’s arrest in May was announced, Mr. Floyd’s relatives called the charges “a welcome but overdue step on the road to justice.” In July, Mr. Floyd’s family sued the city and the officers. Here's what they mean", "Chief Arradondo Announces Immediate Withdrawal From Contract Negotiations With Police Union", "Who was George Floyd? “His life mattered.”, President Trump had called Mr. Floyd’s death “a very very sad event,” and later tweeted that he had asked for an expedited F.B.I. Floyd had underlying health conditions, including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease,” prosecutors said in a criminal complaint, which also listed “potential intoxicants.”. The Minneapolis Police Department fired Mr. Chauvin and the three other officers, all of whom were at the scene. Minneapolis Police Department, via Reuters. [128][129] On June 8, a Hennepin County Court judge ordered the Minneapolis Police Department to cooperate with a civil rights investigation, and extended the restrictions on the department to require that the chief make discipline decisions in a timely and transparent manner, and that certain outside investigators be given authority to audit[further explanation needed] body-worn camera footage and to file or amend complaints on behalf of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department. At 8:19 p.m., Mr. Chauvin pulled Mr. Floyd out of the passenger side of the car. Mr. Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died on May 25 after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground under the knee of a white police officer for more than nine minutes. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. [60] Floyd repeated at least 16 times that he could not breathe. [13][14] Despite this Chauvin refused pleas to lift his knee until medics told him to. Tim Walz called “absolute chaos.”. [10][11]:6:24, Floyd had complained about being unable to breathe prior to being on the ground, but after being restrained he became more distressed, and continued to complain about breathing difficulties, the knee in his neck, and expressed the fear he was about to die and called for his mother. [15]:4:35 Also at 8:20, a second person, standing near the entrance of Cup Foods, began recording the incident. [38], On the evening of May 25, 2020, at about 8:00 pm, Floyd purchased cigarettes at Cup Foods, a grocery store at the intersection of East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. [7], While Floyd lay on his chest with his cheek to the ground, Chauvin knelt on his neck. Thank you!”, Mr. Walz said the tweet was “just not helpful.”. 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