Roy Exum: Will The Trial Be Fair? Monday, March 15, 2021 - by Roy Exum Roy Exum In two weeks one of the most explosive trials in all of America’s history will get underway in Minneapolis, Minn. It is pretty obvious that white police officers used uncommon force in arresting a black man who was unarmed, yet who was overtly defiant to the police officers and did not obey their pleas to calm down. While George Floyd was being physically restrained with a long-established method known as “a choke hold,” the career criminal repeatedly cried out that he could not breathe, this while fighting with the police, and the officers increasingly desperate to control an unfolding catastrophe.