The testimony of Chauvin’s “experts” and the pseudo-legal framework of police terror Millions of people around the world doubtless experienced a mixture of outrage and bewilderment as they listened to the so-called “experts” who were permitted to testify last week on behalf of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer whose brutal murder of George Floyd last year was captured on video and touched off mass protests worldwide. Chauvin’s trial for murder and manslaughter began on March 8 in an atmosphere of extreme social tension. The Minneapolis courthouse where Chauvin is being tried has been transformed into a war bunker, defended by the Minnesota National Guard and surrounded by concrete barriers, metal fencing and barbed wire. These barricades were erected by county officials at a cost of $1 million.