'Begging for his life': Teen who took viral Floyd video cries at ex-officer's trial
The Peninsula
MINNEAPOLIS - The Minneapolis teenager whose cellphone video of Derek Chauvin's deadly arrest of George Floyd sparked worldwide protests began weeping as she was shown an image from the video at the former policeman's murder trial on Tuesday.
Prosecutors have begun their case by calling witnesses to the arrest on May 25, 2020: a Minneapolis 911 dispatcher; a young woman who worked at the gas station across the street; a mixed martial arts fighter who was passing by. Over the first two days of witness testimony, prosecutors have shown the jury video taken from multiple angles, including the teenager's video of Chauvin, who is white, pressing his knee into the neck of a dying Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man in handcuffs, for about nine minutes.More Related News