officer is on trial. The video's from the officers body cameras that showed up close Floyd on the pavement and the officers knees on the street beside him...not as the EMT...who couldn't see them...said the officers had their "full " weight on Floyd. Floyd had the officers tell him "relax" as well as medical help was on the way.
Floyd had been sitting in his Mercedes van from the time he left the store until the police arrived. Yet when they were trying to put him in the police car he was yelling...I am claustiphobic along with he couldn't breathe. As he sat in his van 2 times store employees went out and asked him to come in and talk to the manager, because he had given them a $20 fake Bill. He didn't talk to them but as the witness said waved his hands around his head and rolled his eyes. When the call was made for the police , the police was told he was "high"...and the clerk who testified said he was "high". Oh yes, and Floyd's friend who was with him in the van and earlier tried to give the store a fake $20 Bill.
Also, when the officers finally got Floyd out of his own van and one was with him on the sidewalk, Floyd said something to the officer and the officer replied...ok sit down.