Watch highlights from the first day of Derek Chauvin’s trial in connection with the death of George Floyd where three witnesses testified.
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Highlights From Day One Of Derek Chauvin’s Trial | NBC News NOW
It was a hostile crowd.
I know I would have not felt safe. What if someone in the crowd had a gun and shot the police. I would not have felt comfortable at all , if I was one of those cops. That’s why laws were created to keep all Involved safe. They should have been arrested.
Derek Chauvin: Smug, racist, murderer showing off: “Look Ma!” “No hands!”
Throw away the key.
I’m not defending Chauvin. Something needs to happen to him. But let’s be real here, the deciding factor is the autopsy report. And it says he died from overdose. The charges won’t stick. But the entire policy of this maneuver needs to be thrown out, and Chauvin needs to be punished some other way. There is not a cop in this world that disagrees that was just a stupid move, intentional or not.
i would hate to be derek chauvins lawyer, lets just hope he has a horrible time rotting in jail
Look at how much sense this trial is making . The clerk who told his boss about the incident , his boss then called
the police. The clerk feels “guilty” .The clerk who did nothing wrong
has guilt .
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If you haven’t noticed cops get shot a lot.
“The people who were horrified by me killing a guy distracted me so much that I killed a guy” isn’t really the defense I would’ve gone with.
The drugs in his system killed him
We all know that businesses better have their property insurance up to date! Cause the mob’s getting justice. Innocent on all charges
Every drug is harmful to our health if wrongfully taken. How can i take a drug like Acetaminophen later squeeze my neck / block my air waves and tell the public i die from the Acetaminophen that i took in or some kind of disease.
When your distracted, and you have a crowed of people telling them how to do their job time goes faster than you think. They lost track of time.
Not you thinking it’s okay to defend a murderer
Once again what would this cop hope to gain by killing Floyd??
You notice you don’t see any Trump supporters defending him in these comments? Because they know what he did was wrong
I feel like anyone else this is sad, but I hate to think some cop just doing his job ends up
like this, and the rest of the officers. I wish Floyd made better choices, and was still alive. I believe we all do.
Free ee Derek Chauvin, free free free Derek Chauvin. Nice tune
He had George on the ground. He was disabled from causing any harm. It was murder. No attempt to check vitals or preform CPR.
barely any details
Murderers #Rotinjail
The defense and its lame excuse it was the crowd’s fault that Chavin overdosed on the knee.
Let’s bring in the choking expert to explain what choking somebody does
I dont know if he died directly as a result of the officers actions and I wont assume to know but I think no person should ever lie on other person’s back for that long. I mean if they were in danger then yes of course protect yourselves but not what they did and for 9 mins and he wasnt even armed or anything.
The world is watching! To see Justice and freedom for all really exist in America… we already know that it doesn’t
I have realized that these “highlights” are an extremely negative way to see information on this court hearing. Most things are out of context and it is unfair for either party for these “clips” to substantiate evidence in such a streamlined manner.
Wen do u ever see the ppl just randomly attacking cops??? There’s no threat to them there creating the frustration in the ppl for not! Caring to Floyd !..
Wow they interviewed 5 ppl that had different opinions and he says this is what mostly all black ppl are thinking ?? I’ll pull his racist card . I’m not black but Hispanic of poor inner city Philly , and if he don’t get convicted I want blood!!!!
The cops were afraid of the crowd so they didn’t get off the guy on the ground? On what planet does that make sense?
Did Mr. Floyd care about the officers lives?
I say: ‘Yes’ At 6ft 3in he could have been one.
Guilty
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Anger? That’s stupid non of those officers were attacked or even threaten. Not a bad argument but please do better.
If they were worried about a mass of angry ppl around rhem…..maybe they shouldnt have murdered a man in broad daylight in front of half the city
Floyd was uncooperative, aggressive and under the influence of fentanyol and meth. Subject was in handcuffs but was still a threat . He was being restrained on his left side due to his aggressive intox state. Floyd was a strong big individual. Unfortunately his cause of death was due to overdose of fentanyol and combination of meth. Therefore the only wrong thing Chauvin did was improperly utilize restraining techniques. The appropriate action would be negligence on his part. Not murder!!!
Floyd was a scum bag
This case would be a slam dunk if Floyd was a good man that didn’t commit armed robbery that didn’t take huge amounts of drugs all of this doesn’t mean he deserved to die but when you live a life like that death has a better shot of coming sooner
Crowd of people wouldn’t have grown if what those cops were doing was right. People couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Of cops so scared of a crowd of ppl then switch jobs. Keep composure is part of being professional everybody not a threat to police, but we can’t say the same about them.
The argument that the crowd is responsible for the unnecessary use of lethal force is just utterly incoherent. If the anger of the crowd was in direct response to the officer continuing to press his knee to George’s neck after he had stop resisting arrest, It’s de-escalation 101 that stopping the deadly force would de-escalate the crowd as well.
He DIDN’T LET UP or ease UP. The paramedic had to tell DEREK to get off of his patient so he can receive medical treatment. DEREK CHAUVIN CERTAINLY has the MENTALITY OF a KILLER.
he wasn’t in a choke hold
I think when this dude is found not guilt i think he should file a lawsuit against cnn for defaming him because they didn’t show the whole video and only shown 2min of the end so they made it look like something horrific happen when Floyd was resisting the whole time to the point he ask to be lad down on the ground which they did so they knew that he was high cause he was acting like a little child all because he didn’t want to go to jail
hey i wounder if Floyd was on paper to where if he got into trouble at all with the law he would have to go to prison
i think they said hed spent more than half his life in prison .
Why is nobody in the comments mentioning the heart conditions and drugs in his system?…
“I cant breath” “There was no evidence that he couldent breathe” wtfffffff
REASONABLE DOUBT. METHAMPHETAMINE AND FENTANYL INGESTED AT A GO IN LARGE DOSES MAY OR MAY NOT LET YOU BREATHE + POLICE BRUTALITY. BUT CAN IT BE ONLY LUMPED ON DEREK CHAUVIN AS THE CAUSE?
THAT IS WHAT REASONABLE DOUBT IS.
NOT SENDING AN INNOCENT MAN TO JAIL FOR MURDER.
IF YOU TAKE AWAY THE CONCEPT OF REASONABLE DOUBT; YOU TAKE AWAY JUSTICE.
ONE DAY EVERYONE; CRIMINAL OR INNOCENT WILL WISH THEY HAD THE SILVER RAY OF REASONABLE DOUBT ON THIER SIDE TO SAVE THEM FROM UNFAIRNESS OR JUST PLAIN LUCK AND GOD’S GRACE, EVEN IF YOU DIDN’T DESERVE IT.
Floyd high on Meth and Fentanyl was Not at all a weak man , along with what the coroner has stated about his overdose. They found drugs in the back of the cop car with Floyd’s DNA, they also found drugs in the back of the perps car. So I guess when the cop gets off the BLM riots and building burnings will be allowed.
Not guilty
BLM sucks. Why does the mainstream media keep giving cover to BLM and not report most attack on Asian coming from the blacks?? What a shame. This country needs police enforcement more than any time. Don’t su*port BLM, especially Asians. If police is gone, no one going to protect us from those thugs. If you want respect then act like one who deserves respect! We need to unit and defend ourselves.
So the people screaming and begging for him to stop killing him represent the bigger threat than him ACTUALLY KILLING SOMEONE? Brilliant!
Wtf does the got to do with a knee on his neck for 9 mins.
everything i guess
Its clear that was excessive force! Weather the drugs were or weren’t a factor is insignificant but cutting off a persons air And blood supply is SIGNIFICANT! I’m just not buying the racist part I feel they were equal opportunity murderers!
And the prosecutor said Chauvin’s actions were A substantial cost of Floyds death, (not THE cause of)
Still doesn’t change the fact that it was the cause of it. I’m not sure why you underevolved clowns cant comprehend this.
Maybe he should’ve stayed in the police cruiser.
Why do they always talk about the black community like it’s a monolith. They never talk about the white community like that.
Because, little boy, White society has been prioritized for generations.
OJ Simpson!!!
Thank goodness the judge doesn’t listen to this biased lynch mob
This police officer is gonna come out clean ( doing his duty as he was trained) because he is white. Not that day not the of trial he didn’t seen guilty.
White superiority is ultimately gonna win for sure.
Just imagine if a black police officer would have done this with white man.
You can’t arrest someone without force. Normally American cops are cowards and just wave guns around. Which cause a high chance of death. The rest of the world just throw the person to the ground cuff them. That’s how it’s done.
You wouldn’t want be arrested by the british police.
The fact they don’t have guns turns them into snarling fascists.
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Prison
Look I’m a conservative an usually agree cops are prosecuted alot for nothing. But how do people defend this cops action imo there zero reasonable excuse for what he did. An regardless of what George floyd did or has done it didn’t warrant this. Please stop defending this remorseless POS cop you make in is folks look bad!
I worked in public safety as a communications two-way radio technician dispatchers work in a quite highly secure environment and they totally focused.
Chauvin killed Floyd..cold blooded murder, like a poaching tiger prize, proud of it and deserves life in prison, along with his accomplices.
You forgot to say ‘life without parole’
Life without parole.
Anybody know the names of all those other black dudes dead at the hands of dirty cops? But they were all bad felons right?
What a group of cowards! Claiming the anger of the community is the reason for them killing Floyd??? They’re pure evil.
Drugs drugs drugs . But let’s go racism cause it fits
Free Chauvin!
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if you just didn’t put your knee on him
Q: Who’s that guy with the red sweatpants and red cap in the passenger seat of FLoyd’s vehicle?
A:Maurice Lester Hall.
Maurice Lester Hall was the drug dealer for George Floyd. Maurice Lester Hall sold Floyd the Fentanyl that killed him.
Maurice Lester Hall was shown on film, on the video surveillance camera, exchanging contraband and currency with Floyd, inside of Cup foods, on the day of Floyd’s death, prior to the arrest and resulting death of Floyd.
Maurice Lester Hall is guilty of the death of the death of George Floyd. Maurice Lester Hall is guilty of MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE, 2020 MINNESOTA STATUTE 609.195 (b) :Whoever, without intent to cause death, proximately causes the death of a human being by, directly or indirectly, unlawfully selling, giving away, bartering, delivering, exchanging, distributing, or administering a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $40,000, or both. *
Maurice Lester Hall, 42, who was tracked down in Houston, and, shortly after arrested on outstanding warrants and interviewed by Minnesota state investigators, was the man in the car with George Floyd on the day of Floyd’s death.
Mr. Hall — who had outstanding warrants for his arrest on felony possession of a firearm, felony domestic assault and felony drug possession — provided a false name to officers at the scene of Mr. Floyd’s arrest, according to a Minnesota official. Hall then fled the state of Minnesota, right after the death of Floyd.
* MINNESOTA STATUTES 2020
609.195 MURDER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
(a) Whoever, without intent to effect the death of any person, causes the death of another by perpetrating an act eminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved mind, without regard for human life, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years.
(b) Whoever, without intent to cause death, proximately causes the death of a human being by, directly or indirectly, unlawfully selling, giving away, bartering, delivering, exchanging, distributing, or administering a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II, is guilty of murder in the third degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 25 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $40,000, or both.
So was he choked to death or something else?
Are you telling me this mans excuse is that the crowd was a distraction.WHAT! In the video they had a chance to just put him in a cop car before crowds of people came around IF IT WAS THAT SERIOUS not to say that this was over a fake 20 dollars. A simple conversation could have been made A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING but no you wanna put your knee on someone’s neck…
chauvin did nothing wrong, and here is why
1. george floyd had a positive test for covid 19
2. george floyd was using fentanyl
3. george floyd said he couldnt breathe before he was on the pavement
4. george floyd was not compliant with the police
forgot to mention he had heart issues
fake news
https://youtu.be/EEX98ifuPtI❤️
😑.. All and I Mean All of those Officers need to be jailed for the Murder of this Human Being, (RIP) George Floyd. Period🤷
You can’t lean on a dude’s neck for 9 f****** minutes and say it’s due to drugs
He’s a criminal if he was not committing a criminal act he would still be alive.end of story
Hold on, isn’t the most important detail the fact that he died from a cardiac issue, while overdosing on a mix of drugs?
@ZakvThompson – and now a “lung doctor” says something else??
No I don’t think he deserved to die! I mean we all deserve to die one day, but that’s different. However, when you take those drugs, yes, you are choosing to make it likely that you will die that day. And he did die that day.
At least President Trump didn’t smoke parmesan cheese.
How do you not know when you’re murdering someone. You’re knee has to register sensations of movement to varying degrees to know when the person is struggling, when he is dying and when he is dead. Unless of course you lack the sensitivity for that kind of stuff due to external and internal reasons, conditionings, cultural background, upbringing. There are no bad people, and only bad environments in which people are raised. We need to find out how these human beings became how they did. Psychology as the queen of science. 🙇♂️
Multiple charges show that the district attorney is trying to pin the case on the police. It is a shame that we have a compromised legal system.
George Floyd was a convicted criminal high on drugs, whom got caught committing a crime. He resisted arrest violently for the second time with the Minneapolis PD and died when he was subdued. The death was totally inadvertent. Cased closed.
I wonder if Chauvin’s hack lawyer feels any guilt.
He was asphyxiated, behind your neck is a carotid neurological structure. Which can slow down the pulse putting someone in cardiac arrest. That officer had his knee on that particular structure which caused Floyd to lose consciousness and his lungs to dwell. Some can say it was an overdose but it wasn’t. Kind of like positional asphyxiation
Good luck convincing the public, lol 😆
Every black person I know wants him to be acquitted. It reminds me of the OJ Simpson case the black people cheered, and the white people were sad.
It now has to do with the political structure. This case will be interesting. Great point though
and NONE of them called 911 – that’s how concerned the bystanders were
Defense is weak, smh! There’s no justification to what Derek Chauvin did. Period!
He was defenseless. Handcuffed smh
Lol keep race baiting NBC and other media… They want either conviction or riots.
It looks like that defense attorney watched the TV show How to Get Away with Murder. If the defense find an expert on submission, the prosecutor could nullify it by bringing someone more distinguished, like an actual UFC champion.
He ingested drug which caused his death and caused America to burn. Not guilty
So when one white cop kills one black guy,all white people are to blame and hard working shop owners are made to pay for it with their life’s work?
Everyone should watch the entire 20 min exchange before coming to any conclusions. There’s a lot more here than originally told.
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Guilty on all charges
Whoa, did she say ” you can call me a snitch”?????
How about the democrat trash that burned down the city when will walz be put on trial.
How can that defense attorney live with himself? Unbelievable!
If those jurors do not convict chauvin then i have no hope left for humanity.