A Minnesota judge ruled Monday that the ex-officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd’s death will stand trial alone. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that the trial for Derek Chauvin, 44, the police officer accused of putting his knee on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes, is scheduled for March 8. The other three cops, Thomas …
On Friday, a judge upheld his decision to livestream the trial of the four officers charged in George Floyd’s May killing, citing widespread interest surrounding the case. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill rejected prosecutors’ claims that livestreaming the high-profile trial may deter possible witnesses from coming forward. Cahill initially approved broadcasting the trial on November …
A Minnesota judge on Thursday dropped third-degree murder charges against Derek Chauvin, the former police officer accused of killing George Floyd in May. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill also ruled that the case against the other three former Minneapolis police officers — Thomas Lane, 37, J. Alexander Kueng, …
A former Minnesota police officer who is facing murder charges for allegedly forcing his knee on George Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes reportedly used neck and upper body restraints during at least seven other arrests. On Thursday, the Hennepin County District Attorney’s Office filed a notice of intent to offer additional evidence in …
Body camera footage from two former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd on May 25 was released Monday by the court after media organizations argued for their release, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. The full videos from cameras worn by Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng had been filed with the court …
Leaked bodycam footage from the arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 shows the 46-year-old Black man terrified and struggling to stay out of the backseat of the police cruiser before he ends up face down beneath the knee of Derek Chauvin, where he died. The Daily Mail obtained about 10 minutes of …
As George Floyd struggled to breathe, repeatedly telling the three Minneapolis police officers pinning him down that he was claustrophobic and felt like he was about to die, one officer chided him that he was using “a heck of a lot of oxygen” to talk, body cam transcripts reveal. Derek Chauvin, the fired officer charged …
Transcripts of body camera recordings during the arrest and killing of George Floyd reveal the 46-year-old Black man was nervous and scared, afraid the police officers who ordered him out of the car were going to shoot him. Floyd appeared to have been startled when then-Officer Thomas Lane approached and ordered him to show his …
A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old boy wounded Monday morning in a shooting on the edge of the protest area known as CHOP in Seattle’s Capitol Hill area. According to the Seattle Times, police said they believed the two teens were in a white Jeep Cherokee seen in surveillance footage colliding with a …
Staff allegedly waited 12 minutes to call 911 after the teen lost consciousness
A Minneapolis 911 dispatcher became concerned watching real-time footage of George Floyd’s arrest last month and called a supervisor to alert him to what she saw. Floyd, 46, died on May 25 after then-Officer Derek Chauvin pinned him to the ground, pressing his knee into the prone man’s neck for nearly nine minutes, well after …
One of four fired Minneapolis police officers accused in the death of George Floyd posted bail and left jail Wednesday afternoon, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Thomas Lane, 37, was released from Hennepin County jail just after 4 p.m., a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said. He had been held in lieu a $750,000 bail. …
