New footage shows George Floyd begging police not to shoot him after he was stopped for allegedly trying to use a fake $20 note.
The footage – shown to the jury at the murder trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin – shows one officer aiming a gun at Mr Floyd, who insists ‘I’m not a bad guy’.
Appearing to cry he says: ‘Please don’t shoot me, please, man.
‘Please, man, I didn’t know.’
An officer is also heard telling him to ‘stop resisting’, to which Mr Floyd replies: ‘I’m not.’
As the officers try to put Mr Floyd into the police car, he tells them he is claustrophobic, adding: ‘I’m a (going to) die, man…I’m not a bad guy.
The footage goes on to show Mr Floyd being knelt on as he says a number of times: ‘I love you mama’ and ‘I can’t breathe’.
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Jurors watched it for the first time as the murder trial continued on its third day on Wednesday.
chauvin, 45, faces three charges of second and third degree murder and second degree manslaughter.
He is accused of killing an unarmed Mr Floyd, 46, by pinning him to the pavement for what prosecutors say was nine minutes and 29 seconds as he lay face down and handcuffed.
At Hennepin County courthouse in Minneapolis, the jury heard that Chauvin had defended himself to a bystander as Mr Floyd was taken away by an ambulance.
Charles McMillian, 61, who recognized Chauvin from the neighborhood, told the officer he didn’t respect what Chauvin had done.
‘That’s one person’s opinion,’ is heard responding. ‘We gotta control this guy ’cause he’s a sizable guy… and it looks like he’s probably on something.’
Mr Floyd was 6’4 and 223 pounds, according to the autopsy, which also found fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. Chauvin’s lawyer said the officer is 5’9 and 140 pounds.
The jury also heard from Christopher Martin, 19, who worked at Cup Foods, where Mr Floyd allegedly tried to use the fake $20 note to buy cigarettes.
Mr Martin testified on Wednesday that he watched Mr Floyd’s arrest outside with ‘disbelief and guilt’.
‘If I would’ve just not taken the bill, this could’ve been avoided,’ he said.
He told jurors he immediately believed the $20 bill was fake but he accepted it, despite believing the amount would be taken out of his paycheck,, because he didn’t think Floyd knew it was counterfeit and ‘I thought I’d be doing him a favour’.
Mr Martin then second-guessed his decision and told a manager, who sent him outside to ask Floyd to return to the store. But Floyd and a passenger in his SUV twice refused to go back into the store to resolve the issue, and the manager had a co-worker call police.
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Mr Martin said that when Floyd was inside the store buying cigarettes, he spoke so slowly “it would appear that he was high.” But he described Floyd as friendly and talkative.
Floyd’s death, along with the harrowing bystander video of him gasping for breath as onlookers yelled at Chauvin to get off him, triggered protests around the world and a reckoning over racism and police brutality across the US.
Chauvin’s defense has argued that Floyd’s death was not caused by the officer’s knee, as prosecutors contend, but by his drug use, heart disease, high blood pressure and the adrenaline flowing through his body.
They also insist that Chauvin did what he was trained to do in the situation.
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