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A police officer has testified that the man accused of killing George Floyd understood how to deal with suspects who are going through crisis.
The court heard that Derek Chauvin, accused of killing Floyd, completed 40 hours of intervention training.
It was testified that police are taught how to interact with suspects who are going through crisis.
A day after the Minneapolis police chief appeared on the witness stand, jurors in the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, charged with murder in the deadly arrest of George Floyd, on Tuesday heard from another police witness about training to deal with crisis situations.
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) A day after the Minneapolis police chief appeared on the witness stand, jurors in the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, charged with murder in the deadly arrest of George Floyd, heard from another police witness about training to deal with crisis situations.
The first witness of the day was Minneapolis Police Department Sgt. Ker Yang, a crisis intervention training coordinator with the department. Yang testified that Chauvin completed 40 hours of training in how to deal with suspects who are going through a crisis.
Yang testified that police are trained in crisis intervention incidents to use the principles of neutrality, respect and trust, and how to spot and interact with suspects who are going through a crisis.
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Derek Chauvin s murder trial were expected to call more expert witnesses on Tuesday to testify against the former Minneapolis police officer whose deadly arrest of George Floyd sparked global protests last year.
Chauvin, who is white, has argued he followed police training when he kept his knee pushed into Floyd s neck for more than nine minutes as the handcuffed 46-year-old Black man fell limp and stopped breathing. I vehemently disagree that that was appropriate use of force for that situation on May 25, Chauvin s former boss, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, testified on Monday.
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -The Minneapolis Police Department’s coordinator on the use of force told jurors on Tuesday the neck restraint applied by former policeman Derek Chauvin in the deadly arrest of George Floyd was unauthorized and that officers are trained to use the least amount of force necessary.
Prosecutors in Chauvin’s murder trial presented three department witnesses to try to show that he disregarded training on appropriate use of force, employing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and dealing with crisis situations when he knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.