From the day George Floyd was murdered and for the past ten months since,

people who sympathize with the worst acts of police violence have always tried to make the murder of George Floyd about George Floyd,

almost as if he committed suicide by a cop, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Today begins the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and we already know what to expect.

They're going to try to make this the trial of George Floyd.

Let me unpack and explain three things that I think are going to happen and what the prosecution must say to make sure that Derek Chauvin is held accountable for this.

This is Sean King. You are listening to the breakdown.

The breakdown. The breakdown.

As I record today's episode of the breakdown, the prosecution and defense are about to make their opening statements.

I want to address, I don't even want to say the elephant in the room, but I want to address what I believe is going to be the obvious strategy of the defense team of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

In essence, they are going to say that he did not kill George Floyd and that his actions did not kill George Floyd and that the actions of the other officers who were also on top of George Floyd for nearly nine minutes as he died.

They're going to say that those actions had absolutely nothing to do with the death of George Floyd. In fact, what they're going to try to do is what we first saw happening in the media.

They're going to try to make this instead of the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

They're going to try to make this the trial of George Floyd.

But the truth is George Floyd was a survivor in every sense of the word and he would be alive right now unknown to 99.9% of the world had those police officers not put their full body weight on him and resisted.

The calls for his help the calls for them to get off of him and instead continue to put pressure not just on his neck, which is what officer Derek Chauvin did as George Floyd.

Rived in pain, but they put pressure over his entire body, putting their full body weight on his head, neck, and spine as he died.

And I have watched the video of what I would call the murder of the execution of George Floyd many times and I watched these videos many times in part so that you don't have to.

And I have watched in fact every video from that day that's available from surveillance cameras to the footage from bystanders who were there, including many of the people who were just standing there saying, get off of this man, you are killing him.

People who were there, including people with medical background, we're saying, you are killing this man at least allow me to come take his pulse, at least allow me to come over there and give him some type of medical assistance.

But the police refused and anybody who was watching, including children who were there, adults who were there, and people with a medical background who were there, including myself, who have watched every second of every clip that was available from that day from every possible angle.

It was clear that they were killing George Floyd. He begged for medical assistance. He begged for them to get off and they refused even after he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back.

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