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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge will hear arguments Monday on whether to allow live video coverage of the upcoming trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill took the rare step of allowing live audiovisual coverage ...
... use of force was unreasonable, it was unlikely that someone like Officer Kueng, who was such a rookie, would physically move to remove Chauvin from George Floyd. However, I think that the prosecution ultimately said, this is a case of policy vs. what the defendants were saying, that it is ...
... the scene to help rookies Kueng and Lane after they responded to a call that Floyd used a counterfeit $20 bill at a corner store. Floyd struggled with officers as they tried to put him in a police SUV. Thao watched bystanders and traffic as Kueng knelt on Floyd’s ...
... Floyd struggled with officers as they tried to put him in a police SUV. Thao watched bystanders and traffic as the other officers held down Floyd. Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back and Lane held his legs. All three officers, who are out on bail, testified in their own defense ...
... had heard someone say they couldn't breathe but he wasn't sure they were being honest. Police had responded to a 911 call that Floyd tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill at a corner store. Thao, Kueng and Lane are accused of depriving Floyd of medical care. Kueng ...
... decided to keep Floyd held to the ground. He says Floyd was bleeding, but that an ambulance was en route. One of the officers said Floyd was still breathing when they loaded him into the ambulance. Zimmerman said Lane and Kueng told him nothing about having kept Floyd on the ...
... officers after Floyd became unresponsive, and they couldn't find a pulse, to wait for an ambulance that was on its way. Officers kept restraining Floyd until the ambulance got there, according to testimony and video footage. Bebarta said he believed the officers could have revived Floyd if they had ...
When asked about Floyd's chances of survival if officers had immediately begun CPR after his cardiac arrest, Systrom replied: "They would have been doubled or tripled." Dr. Andrew Baker, Hennepin County's chief medical examiner, testified last week that Floyd died after police "subdual, restraint and neck compression" caused ...
Paramedic Derek Smith testified that he wasn't told Floyd wasn't breathing and had no pulse when officers upgraded the urgency of an ambulance call. Smith said that after he arrived, he could not find a pulse in Floyd's neck and that his pupils were large, indicating he ...
... a time when the nation is in the midst of a reckoning on race and police brutality, sparked in large part by the killing of George Floyd.But it’s still too early to tell whether this trial signals a permanent change in the prosecution of police officers, Lopez said ...
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