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POLITICO Law enforcement officers continue to testify in the George Floyd case. In this image from video, Minneapolis Police Lt. Johnny Mercil, a use of force trainer, testifies Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis. | Court TV via AP, Pool By ASSOCIATED PRESS Link Copied MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police are taught to restrain combative suspects with a knee on their back or shoulders if necessary but are told to “stay away from the neck when possible,” a department use-of-force instructor testified Tuesday at former Office...

BBC News Published media captionWatch: The moment the police chief condemns Chauvin A police trainer has testified that ex-officer Derek Chauvin was not trained to use his knee in a neck restraint as he did during George Floyd's arrest. Minneapolis use-of-force expert Lt Johnny Mercil said Mr Chauvin should also have later moved the prone Mr Floyd to a different position. Mr Chauvin, 45, was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd for over nine minutes during Mr Floyd's arrest last May. Mr Chauvin is on trial for murder and has denied the charges against him. The footage of Mr Chauvin, who is white, with...

ER Doctor: Paramedics Never Said George Floyd Had Heart Attack or OD’d Pilar Melendez © Provided by The Daily Beast via REUTERS The emergency room doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead said Monday that when paramedics brought the 46-year-old Black man to the hospital on May 25, no one told him they suspected he’d had a drug overdose or heart attack. Dr. Bradford Wankhede Langenfeld, who was a senior resident at the Hennepin County Medical Center at the time, explained to jurors how he tried to resuscitate Floyd when he was brought into the ER after former Minneapolis ...

The second week of testimony in the Derek Chauvin trial is set to begin Monday, and the jury is expected to hear more about the former Minneapolis police officer's training. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo could take the stand, as he is slated to testify this week.