Off-duty firefighter testifies she was "desperate" to help George Floyd

Prosecutors continued laying out their case on Tuesday against Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis officer charged in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin, who was seen in a disturbing video kneeling on the neck of the unarmed Black man, is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He has pleaded not guilty. 

Tuesday afternoon, Minneapolis firefighter Genevieve Hansen, who was heard on video repeatedly asking the officers to take Floyd's pulse, testified she was "desperate" to help the man. But she said officers wouldn't allow her to provide medical assistance, leaving her feeling frustrated, helpless and "totally distressed." "There's a man being killed, and had I had access to a call similar to that, I would have been able to provide medical attention to the best of my ability, and this human was denied that right," said Hansen, who is also an emergency medical technician.