On Floyd verdict, talk is cheap. Police secrecy hasn’t changed in N.J. | Editorial Today 8:00 AM Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd (AP Photo).Court TV via AP, Pool Facebook Share Before the video surfaced of George Floyd’s murder, Minneapolis police put out a crisp statement that somebody died in custody because of a “medical incident.” If not for a teenager with a cell phone, we might never have known about the knee on his neck. The lesson is clear: We cannot trust what these agencies tell us in just a few terse sentences. They could leave out the ugly stuff, and we would be none the wiser.