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>>Shaila Dewan and Tim Arango, The New York Times Published: 14 Apr 2021 09:22 PM BdST Updated: 14 Apr 2021 09:22 PM BdST A volunteer cleans a makeshift memorial to George Floyd outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis on Monday, April 1, 2021. Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer is on trial for the death of George Floyd while in police custody last year. (Joshua Rashaad McFadden/The New York Times) A police officer approached a car with George Floyd in the front seat, and Floyd starte...

Daunte Wright Live Updates: Protest Outside Police Station Fades Last Updated April 13, 2021, 2:06 a.m. ETApril 13, 2021, 2:06 a.m. ET The police killing in a Minneapolis suburb adds to tensions around the trial of Derek Chauvin. Protesters there defied a 7 p.m. curfew. Police officers fired tear gas and made arrests. Video Protesters gathered outside the Police Department in Brooklyn Center, Minn., for a second night, in violation of the city’s curfew. Officers fired tear gas to disperse the...

Officer Kim Potter in 2007.Credit...Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune, via Getty Images Minnesota officials on Monday identified the police officer who shot Daunte Wright as Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center Police Department, and said she had been placed on administrative leave. The state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a brief statement that Officer Potter had been placed on “standard administrative leave.” The statement did not elaborate, citing an active investig...

New body camera footage shows George Floyd handcuffed on the street. April 13, 2021, 1:01 p.m. ETApril 13, 2021, 1:01 p.m. ET In newly shown footage, from the body camera of Officer Peter Chang of the Minneapolis Park Police, George Floyd is seen handcuffed and sitting on the street near a Chinese restaurant.Credit...Still image, via Court TV In new body camera footage shown to jurors on Tuesday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, George Floyd is seen handcuffed and sitting on the street near a Chin...

Mr. Brodd’s testimony countered that of prosecution witnesses who have argued the opposite.

In new body camera footage shown to jurors on Tuesday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, George Floyd was seen handcuffed and sitting on the street near a Chinese restaurant, giving his name and birth date to one of the first police officers who arrived at Cup Foods after a clerk called to report that Mr. Floyd had used a fake $20 bill to buy cigarettes. The footage was from the body camera of Peter Chang, a Minneapolis Park Police officer who arrived to back up the two rookie officers who first re...

Dr. Jonathan Rich, a cardiologist called to testify in the trial of Derek Chauvin, said on Monday that George Floyd’s heart was not the main cause of his death. He also ruled out a drug overdose. “Mr. George Floyd died from a cardio pulmonary arrest,” Dr. Rich said. “It was caused by low oxygen levels” induced by the position that “he was subjected to.” It was an observation that Dr. Rich repeated: that the way the police officers restrained Mr....

At other times, Mr. Nelson used his cross-examination to push back on Dr. Baker’s findings. Mr. Nelson urged him to elaborate on the fact that he found no bruises on Mr. Floyd’s back, and that the level of fentanyl found in Mr. Floyd’s system could have been fatal for some people. But throughout the cross-examination, Dr. Baker appeared to be uneasy with Mr. Nelson’s line of questioning. On the issue of bruising, Dr. Baker said that death by asphyxiation — or the deprivation of oxygen...

5 Takeaways From the Second Week of the Derek Chauvin Trial Witnesses addressed two key issues: What caused George Floyd’s death, and whether Mr. Chauvin violated police policies on the use of force. Hennepin County Government Center on Friday.Credit...Joshua Rashaad McFadden for The New York Times April 10, 2021, 9:00 a.m. ET The first week of the Derek Chauvin trial was marked by emotional accounts from bystanders who witnessed the nine and a half minutes that the police pinned George Floyd...

The jury has heard repeatedly that police officers are taught that restraining people facedown is dangerous. Dr. Tobin walked the jury through exactly why, explaining first that simply being in the prone position reduces lung capacity. On top of that, a knee on the neck compressed Mr. Floyd’s airway, he said, and the weight on his back alone made it three times harder than normal to breathe. Dr. Tobin discounted the oft-repeated adage that someone who can talk can breathe, calling it “a ver...