911 dispatcher who watched George Floyd arrest called police because "something wasn't right"

The 911 dispatcher who watched George Floyd's arrest on surveillance video as it unfolded last spring said the restraint lasted so long that she called a police sergeant because she feared "something was going wrong."

"My instincts were telling me something was wrong," the dispatcher, Jena Scurry, said in court Monday. "It was a gut instinct in the incident that something isn't going right. Whether it be they needed more assistance — just something wasn't right. It was a gut instinct." Scurry was the first witness called to the stand in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's death, which drew outrage and re-ignited a nationwide movement for policing reform.