Derek Chauvin trial: Whose fear matters?

[BidenPresident]

Others standing with McMillian on Chicago Avenue that evening were also scared, they said in their eyewitness recollections. They begged Chauvin to stop crushing Floyd, pointing out that Floyd was no longer moving. They did this all from the sidewalk where they had been instructed to remain: Mostly Black or Brown Americans, they were terrified of disobeying police orders even as they watched a man’s life be extinguished under a policeman’s knee.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...948_story.html

[BidenPresident]

On Friday, Lt. Richard Zimmerman, the longest-serving officer in the Minneapolis Police Department, offered scathing condemnation of Mr. Chauvin’s use of force. He said Mr. Chauvin violated police policy and called his actions “totally unnecessary.” Putting a knee on someone’s neck while they are handcuffed in a prone position, he said, qualifies as “deadly force.”

“If your knee is on a person’s neck, that can kill them,” Lieutenant Zimmerman said, adding that people who are handcuffed generally pose little threat to officers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/u...takeaways.html

[Guno צְבִי]

Lt. Richard Zimmerman’s testimony so far is utterly devastating to Chauvin’s defense. He was never trained to kneel on anybody’s neck, and there was no reason to do so to George Floyd. This from the most senior officer in the Minneapolis p.d.

[BidenPresident]

Lt. Richard Zimmerman’s testimony so far is utterly devastating to Chauvin’s defense. He was never trained to kneel on anybody’s neck, and there was no reason to do so to George Floyd. This from the most senior officer in the Minneapolis p.d.

Yes, he said the technique itself in not one specifically approved by the department. He also addressed the defense claim that an angry mob was threatening Chauvin. He said that also was false.