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The prosecution has rested its case against a former Minneapolis police officer after being shown horrific video of black man George Floyd’s death.

The victim’s father, Aubrey, angrily rejected the explanation on Tuesday. “A mistake? That doesn’t even sound right,” he told ABC television, sitting alongside his sobbing wife Katie. “I can’t accept that. I’ve lost my son. He’s never coming back.” In an act of solidarity, members of the Floyd and Wright families were to join forces later Tuesday and publicly speak out against police brutality and systemic discrimination that has prompted an American reckoning on racial injustice. Shortly before the families were to speak, prosecutors rested their case against Derek Chauvin,...

Published Tuesday, April 13, 2021 1:04PM EDT MINNEAPOLIS - The defence began its case Tuesday at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin, seizing on a 2019 confrontation between police and George Floyd in which Floyd suffered dangerously high blood pressure and confessed to heavy use of opioid painkillers. Chauvin lawyer Eric Nelson has argued that Floyd died last May because of his illegal drug use and underlying health problems, not because Chauvin pinned him to the pavement with his knee. Moments after the prosecution rested its case Tuesday following 11 days of ...

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 responded to the scene, before Mr. Chauvin and his partner arrived. Officer Chang’s testimony was th...

April 13, 2021 Cardiology is playing a key role in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, charged on three counts for allegedly killing George Floyd last summer. During the third week of testimony, Jonathan Rich, MD (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL), became the first in the cardiology profession to take the stand in this trial. The question for jurors is whether Chauvin’s actions, when he pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck on the asphalt for nearly 9 minutes, led directly to the 46-year-old Black man’s death. The prosecution, led by the Minnesota attorney general's offic...