- See additional camera views of the arrest
- View the prior complaint card against the main police officer charged
- Read the charges against the officer, who was fired after the incident
- The complaint says the officer used a restraint tactic that is known to be dangerous
- Read the account of events as outlined in the complaint
- The officer and Floyd had worked at the same night club
Organized groups are promoting violence in the wake of the death of an unarmed forgery suspect, George Floyd, after a Minneapolis police officer used his leg to pin Floyd to the ground by his neck.
That’s according to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and mayors Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter, who appeared at a news conference to condemn the violent riots that have been going on.
The officials announced they are fully mobilizing the Minnesota National Guard for the first time in 164 years to help.
“Every person arrested last night was from out of state,” said St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter. “We don’t know these folks.”
However, another report said a majority of arrestees have Minnesota addresses. Then again, USA Today reports this.
“Let’s be very clear, the situation in Minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of George Floyd,” said Walz.
Derek Chauvin, 44, has been arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. He was a Minneapolis police officer at the time of the incident, but was fired shortly afterwards.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office reports it has found “no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”
Floyd’s underlying health conditions included coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease. The Medical Examiner’s office says the underlying health conditions, combined with Chauvin’s restraint (which reportedly lasted almost nine minutes) and any possible intoxicants in Floyd’s system, likely contributed to his death.
The family of Floyd is said to be seeking a second opinion.
Update: According to CNN on Monday:
Experts hired by the family George Floyd and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner have concluded his death was a homicide, but they disagree on what caused it.The [family commissioned] autopsy says Floyd died of “asphyxiation from sustained pressure” when his neck and back were compressed by Minneapolis police officers during his arrest last week. The pressure cut off blood flow to his brain, that autopsy determined. But the medical examiner’s office, in its report also released Monday, said that the cause of death is “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.” Cardiopulmonary arrest means Floyd’s heart failed. The medical examiner made no mention of asphyxiation.
Floyd was charged with armed robbery in a home invasion in Houston, Texas in 2007. He was sentenced to five years in prison in a plea deal, according to reports.
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This video shows the early moments of the confrontation between Floyd and police. Two officers struggle to handcuff Floyd when they remove him from his vehicle.
Once handcuffed, Floyd appeared to be calm until police explained he was under arrest and going to be transported to jail.
The second video at the TMZ link below around six minutes in shows Floyd falling as police attempt to get him in the transport vehicle. The complaint against officer Chauvin says Floyd was falling “intentionally” and telling officers he would not get into the vehicle.
https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/28/teen-recorded-george-floyd-video-traumatized-backlash/
As Floyd struggled and police were unable to get him in the vehicle, Chauvin arrived on the scene and also struggled to get Floyd in the back seat of the car.
Floyd fell to the ground again and Chauvin pinned him down with his leg on Floyd’s neck, a restraint tactic that police are “taught is dangerous.”
Additional video below:
According to the criminal compliant against officer Chauvin, the following events occurred:
Officers were dispatched to a Cup Foods store after a complaint about someone trying to buy products with a counterfeit $20 bill.
Store workers told police the man, Floyd, was parked in a car around the corner.
Two officers, Lane on the driver’s side and Kueng on the passenger side, approached the car which had three people inside: Floyd in the driver’s seat and another man and woman as passengers.
Lane began speaking with Floyd, drew his gun and ordered Floyd to show his hands, then put his gun away when Floyd put his hands on the steering wheel.
When police tried to handcuff Floyd, he resisted, and it took two of them to cuff him. At that point, the officers walked Floyd to the sidewalk and seated him down, handcuffed.
Lane spoke informed Floyd he was going to be arrested for passing counterfeit money.
Lane and Keung assisted Floyd to a standing position and tried to take them to their squad car.
Floyd then “stiffened up, fell to the ground and told the officers he was claustrophobic.”
Officers Chauvin and Tou Thao arrived.
As the officers repeatedly attempted to get Floyd in the squad car, he struggled while handcuffed and “intentionally” fell down.
Floyd told police he was “not going into the car” and “refus[ed] to stand still.”
While standing, Floyd began repeating he could not breathe.
Chauvin then went to the passenger side and tried to get Floyd in from that side, with Lane and Keung assisting.
Chauvin then pulled Floyd out of the passenger side and Floyd “went to the ground” face down.
While Keung and Lane held Floyd’s back and legs, Chauvin “placed his left knee in the area of Mr. Floyd’s head and neck.”
Floyd continued saying “I can’t breathe.”
Floyd stopped moving. Kueng then checked for a pulse and couldn’t find one. Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd’s neck.
Two minutes later, Chauvin removed his knee from Floyd’s neck as medics arrived. He was pronounced dead at Hennepin Healthcare.
Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Nearly three minutes of that time was after Floyd became unresponsive.
According to the medical examiner, “the combined effects of Mr. Floyd being restrained by the police, his underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death.”
“Police are trained that this type of restraint with a subject in prone position is inherently dangerous,” says the complaint against Chauvin.
Chauvin faces up to 25 years in prison on the murder charge and up to 10 years in prison on the manslaughter charge.
The “employee complaint card” for Chauvin:
The arrest complaint against former Officer Chauvin:
According to an interview on NPR, Chauvin and Floyd worked at the same night club. The owner said she isn’t sure if they knew each other.
Maya Santamaria, former owner of El Nuevo Rodeo, said that both Floyd and Chauvin worked security at the club. She said that the two could have crossed paths, though Chauvin mostly worked outside as an off-duty officer, while Floyd primarily was inside as a bouncer. She wasn’t sure if they knew each other.
“Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open,” Santamaria told KSTP. “They were working together at the same time, it’s just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside.”
Read the NPR article by clicking the link below.
Has anyone other than Police/Med confirmed his death or seen his body?
Good reporting .. too rare these days
What I am seeing is, if you look carefully, once they get him to the squad car, an officer puts his hands of Floyd’s shoulder and pushes down as if maybe, “Sit on the curb”. Then, abruptly starts to pull him back up, just before the other squad car blocks the view.
What we don’t see, is how Floyd ended up from the drivers side of the squad car, to the passenger side, and… WHY?
Put it at half speed.
They showed the “standing cop” body cam video, but it ended before he crossed the street to join the other 3 officers, so it’s not very helpful. Wonder if they will then release the rest of it, as he went across the street? Or the other cop’s body cams for that matter.
Before the video ended you can see the ambulance drive away, Floyd was in the ambulance so there would be nothing else to see. But the body cams of the four that were across the street would be something to see.
These videos were poor examples of what’s on the net…the 3rd is entirely useless…
Questions…why the inconsistencies in the uniforms..badges versus patches..why was the license plate on the cruiser different…why have these 4 officers been in multiple situations through the years as if a team…if the cop who ended Mr Floyd’s life has been investigated multiple times..why was he still on the force…
Some say the person photographed at the time of arrest..is not the cop at the scene…
Why is the Governor’s daughter giving rioters state information about the National Guard’s movements and expected time of arrival…
Why is he allowing her this information…
This stinks to high heaven…??…???
This is horrible. God help us all.
911 call transcript: https://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/groups/public/@mpd/documents/webcontent/wcmsp-224718.pdf
Excerpts from the transcript:
Caller: “…he is awfully drunk and he’s not in control of himself.”
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911 operator: “he’s under the influence of something?”
Caller: “Something like that, yes. He is not acting right.”
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Criminal complaint charge against officer Derek Chauvin: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6933246/Derek-Chauvin-Complaint.pdf
Excerpt from the complaint:
Lane asked, “should we roll him on his side?” and the defendant said, “No, staying put where we got him.” Officer Lane said, “I am worried about excited delirium or whatever.” The defendant said, “That’s why we have him on his stomach.”
Excerpt of Medical Examiner’s statement from the complaint:
“The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation”
^ Note that Floyd did not die due to suffocation or loss of blood-flow to the brain! The knee-on-the-neck was -NOT- the cause of death.
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Article from 2005 about “Excited Delirium” and “Sudden Unexpected Death” due to Cocaine use: https://www.emsworld.com/article/10324064/cocaine-excited-delirium-and-sudden-unexpected-death
^ Note that the article above indicates that a suspect experiencing “Excited Delirium” should be restrained in -any- -position- -other- -than- -prone-, whereas office Chauvin appears to have gotten that exactly backward… it appears that he -believed- that the suspect -should- be kept in the prone position.
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Knee-on-the-neck restraint procedure is common and -not- deadly., See the following pictures:
https://www.alamy.com/police-tac-swat-team-arresting-suspects-kansas-city-mo-pd-usa-street-image283031.html
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-police-arresting-a-man-who-resisted-they-kneel-on-him-as-they-handcuff-26050808.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=564FF5DD-C834-4FAE-9E9B-64EC9F11F65A
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theerant/video-critics-upset-over-cop-s-tactics-during-arre-t101395.html
I should add that placing the suspect in the prone position would not -guarantee- death, nor would a different position have -guaranteed- the suspect’s survival. Ultimately it appears that the death was due to drug use bringing-on “excited delirium’ and “sudden death syndrome’ (assuming that the toxicology report shows presence of cocaine and/or PCP etc.)
I do wonder whether Officer Chauvin simply misremembered the details about how to position the subject, or whether he had been -trained- wrong.
OVER. $20.00 … George Floyd, LOST HIS LIFE !!!! Think about this… $20.00!!!! Counterfeit or not…. THIS WAS WRONG!!!!! Too many bad cops out there playing Judge and Jury!!!! that cop is a MURDERER!
The participants, (the other 3 officers), did. NOTHING to stop it, & are as GUILTY as the man who put his knee on George’s neck!! ZLET THEM ALL BE ACCOUNTABLE, GUILTY FOR MURDERER!
absolute fake BS. these people are demonic. there never was any ‘George Floyd’
floyd, when he was on the ground, shows he is bald, but the photo of floyd shows a full head of hair, how is this?
floyd, in the first part of the video, has a yellow trim on his tank top, but in the second part (video?) the trim is gone, how is this?