Jury Finds Derek Chauvin Guilty On All Counts In Killing Of George Floyd
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🗓️ 20 April 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Just after 4 p.m. central on Tuesday, in a courtroom in Minneapolis. |
| 0:05.0 | Remember the jury? I would now read the verdicts as they will appear in the permanent records of the fourth judicial district. |
| 0:10.0 | A jury found Derek Chauvin guilty on three charges, an intentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. |
| 0:21.0 | The former Minneapolis police officer was filmed in May of last year kneeling on the neck of George Floyd. Floyd was pinned in handcuffed to the ground. |
| 0:31.0 | And for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, you could hear him on video, among other things, calling for his mother. |
| 0:39.0 | The videos seen around the world played heavily throughout the trial, and a parade of witnesses took the stand in the Hennepin County courtroom. |
| 0:48.0 | Members of George Floyd's family, medical experts, and remarkably other police officers, testifying for the prosecution. |
| 0:56.0 | The Minneapolis police chief, Madera Arradondo, Chauvin's former boss, testified that Chauvin's use of force against Floyd was not reasonable. |
| 1:05.0 | That in no way she performs anything that is by policy, is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values. |
| 1:16.0 | Attorneys in the trial presented the jury differing explanations for the cause of Floyd's death. |
| 1:21.0 | The Hennepin County medical examiner ruled Floyd's death a homicide, saying that Floyd's heart and lungs stopped functioning, quote, while being restrained by police. |
| 1:32.0 | Meanwhile, the defense broad experts who argue that a number of other factors, for instance, in enlarged heart or fentanyl and George Floyd's system may have been responsible for his death. |
| 1:43.0 | Here's how David Fowler, a retired forensic pathologist, put it for the defense. |
| 1:49.0 | It's very difficult to say which of those is the most accurate, so I would fall back to undetermined. |
| 1:56.0 | In that video, the person behind that cell phone, well they testified in this trial as well. |
| 2:03.0 | Darnela Frazier was 17 when she stopped in the street and began recording a video of George Floyd's arrest. |
| 2:10.0 | That video went up on Facebook, so one that sparked protests around the world. |
| 2:15.0 | And in her testimony, Frazier captured the way many black Americans felt when they saw that video. |
| 2:22.0 | When I look at George Floyd, I look at my dad, I look at my brothers, I look at my cousins, my uncles, because they are all black. |
| 2:34.0 | I have a black father, I have a black brother, I have black friends. |
| 2:41.0 | And I look at that and I look at how that could have been one of them. |
| 2:46.0 | Consider this. 11 months after the arrest that ended George Floyd's life, the case against former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin has ended in a murder conviction. |
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