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Consider This from NPR

Inside The Opening Days Of The Derek Chauvin Trial — And The Trauma It's Resurfacing

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 30 March 2021

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Summary

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's trial began this week. He's accused of murdering Minneapolis resident George Floyd in May of 2020, when Chauvin was recorded kneeling on Floyd's neck for nearly 10 minutes.

NPR's Adrian Florido has been covering the trial and reports from Minneapolis.

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0:00.0

Jenna Scurry has been a 911 dispatcher in the city of Minneapolis for seven years.

0:06.4

She's never made a call like the one she made on May 25th, 2020.

0:11.6

My instincts were telling me that something's wrong.

0:14.4

Something has not right.

0:16.4

I don't know what, but something was a great.

0:19.0

On May 25th, Scurry was watching the video feed from a city camera near the corner of

0:24.0

East 38th Street and Chicago Avenue.

0:27.8

Police officers there had been holding a man on the ground for so long.

0:32.4

Scurry thought there was a problem with the video.

0:34.5

I first asked if the screen said frozen.

0:38.2

Why did you ask that?

0:39.2

Because it hadn't changed.

0:40.9

After learning the feed had not frozen, Scurry called the police sergeant and charged that

0:45.5

day.

0:46.5

At the beginning of the call, you can hear her say, you can call me a snitch if you want to.

0:51.8

I didn't know you can call me a snitch if you want to, but we had the cameras up for

0:55.8

320, Scull.

0:57.8

Did they already put them in the game of Scurry?

0:59.8

We did him.

1:00.8

And 320 over at CUP foods.

1:03.8

Okay.

1:05.8

I don't know if they had a youth force or not.

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