officer tao watched most of the suffocation and only went over to keep people from giving help. one bhoeperson identified add a medical trained firefighter for the city of minneapolis and that was dismissed. like are we going to believe her. they kept trained medical people from tproviding help. these were all uniformed peace officers adding to the abuse of trust and authority. i know the defense asked the court for probation. i m not going to spend a lot of time arguing that. it s so outside of the realm of, i think, real possibility. this is murder. i understand some of the arguments made on behalf of mr. chauvin. i understand well, i can t
0 we have all seen it. mr. floyd did not want to be in the backseat. that s it. that s the rub. it was the need to get him in that backseat no matter what. we all saw that once he was pulled out of that backseat, he ka calmed down even willingly went down to ground. i m going down. he said. he went down to ground, not fighting, not punching, and he was placed initially on his side. he s already land cuffed. he s placed on recovery position like he should be, beche s trying to breathe. quickly faced prone on the ground face down. mr. chauvin put his left knee on george floyd s neck. his right now on george floyd s back, face down on the pavermen. an officer came and sat on mr. floyd s waist area and had officer lane pull his feet down. you can see mr. floyd trying to pull his feet up. we are all going to fight to breathe. everybody knows that fear when you all of a sudden realize you re having trouble breathing. we want to survive. we know we have to breathe. there s an automatic reacti