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Also Thursday, Floyd's girlfriend Courteney Ross described the couple's bouts of opioid addiction during their three-year relationship.

On the fourth day of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's murder trial in the death George Floyd, jurors heard from multiple first

A paramedic testified on Thursday at the high-profile trial of the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd that the 46-year-old Black man was already dead when he arrived.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 2 ― A paramedic testified yesterday that George Floyd was already dead when he arrived at the scene and Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is being tried for murder, still had his knee on the neck of the 46-year-old Black man. “When I showed up he was deceased and...

Courteney Ross met Mr Floyd in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where he was a security guard.

Derek Chauvin defended restraining George Floyd in phone call with supervisor Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin spoke to his supervisor in a phone call shortly after kneeling on George Floyd for over 9 minutes last May to explain his version of what happened. “I was just going to call and have you come out to our scene here,” Chauvin told Sgt. David Pleoger in a call captured on body camera footage and played in court Thursday. “We just had to hold a guy down. He was going c...

Courteney Ross met Mr Floyd in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where he was a security guard.

Courteney Ross met Mr Floyd in 2017 at a Salvation Army shelter where he was a security guard.

Witnesses questioned Thursday in the trial of former MPD officer Derek Chauvin also included Floyds girlfriend.