'Don't kill me': Others tell of abuse by officer who knelt on George Floyd
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By: Jamiles Lartey and Abbie VanSickle
Firsthand accounts accuse Derek Chauvin, the police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck in Minneapolis, of using similar tactics on detainees over the years.
Nearly three years before Minneapolis police officer Derek
Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried out that he couldn't breathe last May, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin's knee on her.
The officer had answered a call of a domestic dispute at her home, and Code said he forced her down when she tried to pull away.