After more than six million doses of j j vaccines have been administered, the fda is set to hold a press conference to answer further questions on this at any moment. Were following that and well bring it as it comes. Also minutes from now, the prosecution in the Derek Chauvin murder trial is expected to rest its case today. And the defense could begin calling its own witnesses in just hours. This comes after a second night of protests and violent clashes with police fueled by the death of yet another unarmed black man just ten miles away from where the chauvin trial is taking place. This time police shot 20yearold daunte wright. There he is. Also this morning, right now on capitol hill, a ceremony is under way for fallen u. S. Police officer, Capitol Police officer billy evans. He was killed earlier this month when an attacker rammed his car into him and another officer who was injured at the north barricade of the capitol complex. Lots of news happening this morning. Well bring that you ceremony as well. We begin with the breaking news on Johnson Johnsons vaccine. Joining me now, senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Describe the data here that led to this decision. Jim this is really an example of the system working the way that its supposed to. As you mentioned, millions of people have gotten this vaccine and they monitored it to see if any odd things were happening and they found, well, something very serious and very rare was happening. So lets go over these numbers. So in the United States, nearly 7 Million People have received the Johnson Johnson vaccine. And whats been documented as six cases of rare and serious brain blood clots all in women ages 18 to 48. And the symptoms appear six to 13 days after vaccination. So im sure that people, especially young women, that have been vaccinated may be asking themselves, yikes, what should i look for . So again, i will say, this is very rare. But there are certain symptoms that you should watch out for and if you have them, you should call your Health Care Provider. So this is right from the cdc. You should contact your Health Care Provider. If within three weeks of getting this vaccine, the Johnson Johnson vaccine you have a severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain or shortness of breath. It could appear in other parts of your body as well. So, jim, obviously this is not great news. No one wanted this to happen. But i want to temper this with one thing. Weve been told by the federal government that achieving the vaccination goals is not dependent on j j. It was a very small percentage of all the vaccines being done. Moderna and pfizer are being used in much higher numbers. Moderna and pfizer do not have this blood clot concern. The thinking is that we can reach the goals that we need to reach in the United States without using Johnson Johnson jim. J j doses about 3 of the total number of vaccines administered so far. Elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. Lets go to one of the sites where Johnson Johnson vaccines were expected to be administered. Were at the center in new york, a major vaccination site. I got mine there. It was pfizer. What is the latest there . Is j j a big part of new yorks plan . Yeah, well if you remember, jim, j j helped make the afsent near a 24hour vaccination. It wasnt a huge part of the Distribution Process but added to it. There were disappointment from people we spoke to this morning that were arriving hold that thought if i can. Hold your thought if you can, were going to go right to this Live Press Conference on this decision. This is the fda speaking about the j j vaccine. Lets listen in. Help moderate a question and answer portion following brief opening remarks by dr. Peter marks, director of the fda center for biological evaluation and research and ann, the cdcs principle director. After remarks, well then move to the question and answer portion of the call. Reporters on the call will be in a listen only mode until we open the call up for questions. As a reminder, this audio call is being recorded and live streamed on the f. D. A. s youtube channel. When asking a question, state your name and affiliation. Youll be given the opportunity for one question. With that, i turn the call over to acting fda commissioner dr. Janet woodcocks. Thank you. And thank you all for joining us. This morning the fda and cdc announced that out of an abundance of caution, were recommending a pause in the use of the Johnson Johnson covid19 vaccine due to reports of six cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot following vaccine administration. Were recommending this pause while we Work Together to fully understand these events and also so we can get information out to Health Care Providers and vaccine recipients. I would like to stress these events seem to be extremely rare. But covid19 vaccine safety is a top priority for the federal government. And we take all reports of adverse events following vaccination very seriously. Yo id like to turn it over to dr. Peter marks, director of evaluation and research for more information about these reports. Peter . Thank you. Together the cdc and the fda are reviewing data involving six reports of a rare type of blood clot called cerebral venus in combination with low levels of platelets in the blood in women ages 18 to 48 who presented with symptoms between 6 and 13 days after receiving the Johnson Johns johnson covid19 vaccine. Treatment of this specific type of blood clot is different from typical treatments for other types of blood clots which usually involve heperin. With the sinus thrombosis, it may be dangerous. Alternative treatments need to be given preferably under the guidance of physicians experienced in the treatment of blood clots. Of the clots seen in the United States, one case was fatal and one patient is in critical condition. While rereview the data, out of an abundance of caution, the fda and cdc are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine in the United States. The fda will revise the fact sheet for Health Care Providers administering vaccine and the fact sheet for recipient and caregivers for the vaccine to include this adverse event information to ensure that Health Care Providers are able to make appropriate benefit us are being determinations for their patients. You have to reiterate what dr. Woodkock said. The events are extremely rare. That said, covid19 vaccine safety is a top priority for federal government and we take all reports of adverse events following vaccination very seriously. Health care providers who see people presenting to them with either low blood late let count or blood cots should establish whether or not the individual has recently been vaccinated in order to inform the appropriate diagnosic evaluation and management. Now id like to turn to dr. Ann shukit, the Deputy Director to speak to further explain our decision and next steps. Thank you, dr. Marks. I know that the information will provide today is going to be very concerning to americans who have already received the Johnson Johnson vaccine. I want to let you know what were doing to learn more to protect people in the meantime. And what can you do to be on the alert. As dr. Marks mentioned, there are six reports of a severe stroke like illness linked to low platelet counts. And more than six million doses of the j j vaccine have been administered so far. While the events are very rare, were recommending a pause in the use of the j j covid19 vaccine in order to prepare the Health Care System to recognize and treat patients appropriately and to report severe events they may be seeing in people who received the j j vaccine. This pause will also allow the cdcs Expert Committee to review the situation. The safety of vaccine and the American People is the most importance to us. Our Advisory Committee on immunization practices is the cdcs independent scientific Expert Committee on immunization matters. Were scheduling them to convene tomorrow to review the data we have on the initial cases. This will allow careful deliberation about what we know so far about these events and consider next steps given the current context of the covid19 pandemic in the United States and our broader immunization efforts. As a reminder, the meetings are open to public viewing. Today were also alerting state Health Officials and other leaders in the states and cities, pharmacies and other Health Care Providers who are administering the vaccine to make sure that they know about the pause and so clinicians know how to evaluate and report severe events after vaccination. I know people that ghot the vaccine that are probably very concerned. For people that got vaccine more than a month ago, the risk to them very low at this time. For people who recently got the vaccine, within the last couple weeks, they should be aware to look for any symptoms. If you received the vaccine and developed severe headache, abt nall pain, leg pain, or shortness of breath, you should contact your Health Care Provider and seek medical treatment. These symptoms are different from what other people experience in a couple days of receipt of the vaccine. Importantly, there are three vaccines available. Were not seeing this with the other two vaccines. People that have vaccine appointmentes with the other vaccines, continue with nur appointment. Our partners will be working to reschedule people who have the j j vaccine appointment in the days ahead. This may be a bit bumpy. We want to make sure that were getting the word out to the public and to our providers. But we do want to make sure that people who are scheduled to have vaccination will be able to get that when vaccine is available. Were committed to ensuring transparency and bring you regular updates. Well tell what you we know when we know it and what you can do to protect yourself and our intention is to update you in the days ahead. This has been a long pandemic and year and a half and people are tired of the steps they need to take and are keen to be able to being vaccinated. The steps were taking today are meant to make sure that the Health Care System is ready to diagnose, treat, and report and that you the American Public has the information you need to stay safe. Thank you. Thank you, doctor. At this time, well begin the question and answer portion of the briefing. When asking a question, please state your name and affiliation. Operator, well take the first question. Thank you, that is star one. First question comes from karen stacy. Please state your outlet. Thanks very much. This is karen stacy from the financial times. This obviously looks like the same thing that is happening with the astrazeneca vaccine. I wonder if you can tell us a little bit about the context that you had with regulators in europe about that. And also whether there is any evidence of similar events happening with moderna and pfizer. Certainly. Were in Constant Contact with the regulators worldwide and looking at adverse events experienced in different regions. Ill turn this over to dr. Marks to answer in detail. Yeah, thank you very much. So you asked about whether there was similar cases with the moderna or pfizer vaccines. And there have been over 180 million doses of these vaccines administered. And at this time, we have not found any reports combined with. Operator, well take the next question. Thank you. Michael, you may state your go ahead and please state your outlet. Hi. This is michael irman from reuters. Im wondering just quickly how long the pause is expected to be . What is the minimum time . And also whether youre considering limiting vaccination for j j to certain groups like people over 50 or all men and women over 50 . We expect it to be a matter of days for this pause. And i will maybe turn it over to dr. Shookit to answer further. Thank you. We are committed to an expeditious review of the available information and to an aggressive outreach to clinicians so they know how to diagnose, treat, and report. One of the things that the acips deliberation will do is review the data on the cases and the context of risks, benefits, and subsets of the population that may be in a different category. So i think our intent is in the days ahead to provide an update with you regularly and that pause provides us time for deliberations and assuring appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Thank you, our next question comes from elizabeth weiss. Usa today. I have a question and maybe this is for dr. Marks, do you have any symptom what the mechanism behind this might be . What could potentially be causing this . Dr. Marks may want to enlarge upon that. So, thank you very much. We dont have a definitive cause. But the probable cause that we believe may be involved here that we can speculate is a similar mechanism that may be going on with other viral vaccine. That is that this is an immune response that occurs very, very rarely after some people receive the vaccine. That leads to the extremely rare blood clots. So to be specific, the person being vaccinated makes an immune response potentially that actually involves their own platelets and causes that problem and that is the leading sh theory or hypothesis about what is going on here. Operator, we take the next question. Thank you. That comes from matt preen. You may go ahead. Please state your outlet. Hi. Thank you. With the associated press. Thank you for taking questions. Can you talk a little bit more about just how the fda determines that these six events out of, you know, almost seven million injections, constitute a signal . I mean, what would have been the background rate for the type of event like this . Certainly. This is janet woodcock. This is extensive work between the cdc and fda on this set of events and analysis to see exactly what youre asking about. So dr. Marks, you would like to respond . The issue of the cerebral venus thrombosis, the background rate of that is between two and 14 per Million People. But thats in the setting of a normal plate lent count. The combination here, the real thing that is so notable here is not just the cerebral venus sinus thrombosis or the other thing that can occur. Its occurrence together that makes a pattern and that pattern is very, very similar to what was seen in europe and we have to take time to address this complication and address it properly. Thank you. Operator, we take the next question. Please state your outlet. Hi. This is ann clarity with abc news. So what would you say to people who are concerned and frustrated that they think this might be an overreaction considering its six people out of seven million . You know, we are committed to safety and transparency. And to zexpeditiously learn wha we can so further steps can be taken. When we saw this pattern and aware of that treatment needed to be individualize ford this condition, it was important to get that out. Cases are increasing in a the lot of places and vaccination is critical. So we want to make sure that we make some recommendations quickly. Jacqueline, you may go ahead. State your outlet. Thanks for taking my question. Im with cnn. And i would like to know more about the Decision Making process for the pause. It seems like just yesterday we were told that this was something that was being looked into. Then this morning the decision was made. So can someone explain how did this decision happen quickly and why was the decision made and were states involved or given awareness or heads up that the pause would happen . Thank you. Wish we had more time to get everyone prepared and this could go even more smoothly. We as we learn about the issue with appropriate treatment and it was clear we needed to alert the public. There was time for the Health Care Community to learn what they needed to learn about how to diagnose, treat, and report. But the decision was based on the events that might occur between when we made that realization. Its a question of making sure we want to be open with our concerns and prepare the Health Care Community to diagnose, treat, and report while the more detailed deliberation occurs tomorrow. The issue here with these types of blood clots is that if one administers this standard treatments that we as doctors have learned to give for blood clots, one can cause tremendous harm or the outcome can be fatal. So one needs to make sure that providers are aware that if they see people who have low Blood Platelets or if they see people who have blood clots, they need to inquire about history of recent vaccination and act accordingly in the diagnosis and management of those individuals. This was taken rapidly in order to honor our commitment to the American Public to ensure that any safety signal that came up during this vaccine rollout was fully addressed in a transparent manner. Caroline chen. Please state your outlet. Hi, im Caroline Chen from republica. Are there any subpopulationors medical histories that may predispose a person to this rare side effect or even if you have a hypothesis on that at this point. I think there are few too cases for us to make that determination for this particular vaccine. We may be hearing about more cases. Well look further into these. Well have deliberations were not prepared to single out any particular subgroup. Operator, take the next question. Jackie lee, you may go ahead and please state your outlet. Hi. Good morning. Thanks so much for having the call. Im with bloomberg law. I was hoping that someone could address kind of the anything you would suggest Going Forward regarding messaging for this. I would anticipate that, you know, there could be some fears about this stoking some more Vaccine Hesitancy and so, you know, what would you recommend to help providers to avoid that situation . We had several questions about this. We need to reiterate. Were committed to vaccination. We feel that is a really important tool to get this pandemic under control. Were also committed to patient safety. And our message is that in doing this, we feel were taking the route that will provide the most safety for the patient by enabling Health Care Professionals to recognize, to properly treat and properly report any of the events that might happen. The message to patients is those that have not been vaccinated, get vaccine thats are available to them because the risks from the pandemic are significant. The government is looking into any safety problems so they can be managed properly with this vaccine and all vaccines. Maybe i could expand this to the doctor just to say that i agree with dr. Woodcocks assessment. To remind clinician ands public that 121 Million People have been vaccinated with at least one dose of one of the three vaccines. With the intensive safety monitoring, we have not detected this type of syndrome with the low platelets among the other vaccines. And we have real world evidence of the effectiveness in the u. S. So were taking this pause and precautions in the context of a large, robust, and highly safe and effective vaccination effort. Thank you. Operator, well take the next question. Thank you. Evan brawn, you may go ahead and please state your outlet. Im curious about the choice of words in announcements. Youre recommending a pause in the use of the Johnson Johnson vaccine. But youre not ordering a stoppage. Is there a difference between the two . What would that difference be . What are your words to a nonprofit outfit that does not heed your recommendation . Thank you. This is a recommendation and not a mandate. Its out of an abundance of caution were recommending that the vaccine be paused in terms of its administration. However, if an individual Health Care Provider has a conversation with an individual patient and they determine the benefit risk for that individual patient is appropriate, were not going to stop that provider from administering the vaccine because it could be, right in, many cases, that benefit risk will be beneficial overall to that individual. And large majority of cases. So, again, were recommending a pause out of an abundance of caution. A provider and person can make the decision whether or not to receive the vaccine. Prautor, well take the next question. Thank you. Im with politico. I have a question on subgroups. There are a few cases now. Is there any risk linked to Birth Control . All of the women of are child bearing age. There are 6 confirmed cases but people will come out as they recognize. This how many probable cases do you have on your horizon right now . Im happy to take this one. Thanks very much. So at this time, its not clear that there is any association with the oral contraceptive pill, Birth Control in the individual. So had these blood clots. Its too early to make a speculation how many cases will come out. I do agree with you it is possible well learn of month are cases. And thats part of the reason why were taking the pause to try to ascertain that. I cannot speculate how many more well learn of. Hopefully it will be a few. Operator, well take the next question. Thank you. Lee ann winic, you may go aheadst please state your outlight. Hi, im from cbs news. I have two questions. As you mentioneded that some people may have a conversation with their Health Care Provider and decide this is appropriate for them, but most people are going to mass vaccination sites and dont have that relationship. Are there certain risk factors that an individual would know from their medical history . And secondly, could you estimate the number of j j that were meant to be given out in the days ahead and how that might affect the president s 200 million dose goals since the inauguration . Thanks. Would anyone like to respond . Let me start with the second question first. I think the vaccine supply has become more abundant over time. And i think that this temporary pause is not going to have a large adverse effect on making the goals in a timely manner if at all. If any at all. In temperatrms of risk factors, think at this point theyre specific enough that, you know, to an individual that thats going to have to be a determination that an individual has with their Health Care Provider. And ill turn that over to dr. Shookit since she may have more to say about that. Thank you, dr. Marks. Were working now from a small number from the six events that have been reported here in the u. S. And so while were seeing them in women under 50, i think we need to take some time and have our Advisory Committee immunization practices taken. And our understanding is that were going to look for predisposing conditions in at least some of those individuals. And then the issue of supply, just to say that currently they are providing the great minority of doses. Every dose is precious. And were keen to get as many dose as possible. As rapidly as possible. But its too early to know the impact on the supply longer term. I couldnt hear what you said all right. Weve been listening to a media call by the fda explaining its decision today to pause, i should note, pause the unite of the j j vaccine. In fact, they say its a temporary pause while they review data. Six indications of blood clotting events of j j vaccines administered so far. We heard the doctor say this is a recommendation, not a mandate. Health providers can decide in conjunction with the patient wlz the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks as we know them. Im joined by dr. Sanjay gupta to help us understand this. This is quite a big step to take. And they heavily qualified it. Its a pause. Its a temporary pause while rereview the data and that pause, this he say, may last just days. And its a recommendation not a mandate. How do you interpret this . Does it strike you as the right call . Well, the last question, i think it is the right call. I think if the case is one in a million that it was picked up and now trying to address this. There is still a lot of unknowns. They want to figure out if there some way of figuring out are people more at risk . Is there something to do about this to lower peoples risk . They want to make sure that information is getting out to patients and Health Care Providers. That is another thing can you do during this pause. I think will increase Vaccine Hesitancy. People will read the headlines and become concerned. So emphasizing the real numbers here this is at this point from what we know less than 1 in a million chance of happening. They also got into the more specifics about what do you do for Health Care Providers . What do you do if somebody has one of these clots . I think this is a different clot. We can show an umaimage of of t quickly. These are the big veins that drain blood away from the brain. If you get a clot, you can develop blood swelling. Thats why they have done the pause and theyre giving information to doctors and nurses about that. The. Sanjay, just to explain the live pictures on right hand side of our screen. This is actually just outside the capitol. This is the motorcade bringing the bod y of billy evans, you my remember, was killed in a veh vehicular attack on the capitol. Hell lay in honor in the capitol. Whul we await that and can you see just now hearse coming into view. So one in a million, actually less than a million, six cases, seven million doses administered so far, we know that the risk of a population that size becoming very ill from coronavirus is far greater. Many multiples of the clotting risk. And i wonder how the fada balances that math there even for a temporary pause knowing there is a greater us are being from the covid19 than the clotting events. You know, its such a great question. This is a sun that were finding signal and nouz that the very rare events were able to identify and actually be able to take a breath and think. Now what they have done with very similar kinds of potential signal is to start eliminating the age range thats the vaccines are good for. So during this pause, as we look at the data, we might find that the vaccine is safe in people over the age of 60 and that we preserve the j j vaccine then for awe different population than for others. And so taking the time to be able to really look at the data and look at who is the risk highest in . Who is vaccine safe in and then tailoring who we give which vaccine to is going to be really important. Understood. We did see this play out in europe with the astrazeneca vaccine pause and then they reinstituted and vaccinating people again. Folks, a lot is happening at one time. There you see the hearse carrying billy evans arrived at the capitol. Very few people do that. Were also monitoring the on going Derek Chauvin trial. The defense, rather, the prosecution in that case has just rested. The defense is preparing to call its first witness. Well get you to that live when we see that. Dr. Gupta, i want to get to this. There are seven million americans, some of whom might be watching this program that have already been vaccinated with j j. Ive been getting Text Messages from some of them i know. What is your recommend toation them right now . First of all, it is very unlikely, very, very unlikely youll have any sort of problem. I mean, you know, one in a million. Thats not just a euphemism. That is the numbers were talking about here. If youre further than a few weeks out if, you go this in beginning of march, youre out of the window where this is a concern. What they think might be happening here is the vaccine may have caused some sort of immune reaction to your platelets which help, you know, actually form blood clots. So san have a, ijay, i have to f briefly. Were going to take you unside the courtroom with Derek Chauvin trial. This is First Defense witness in the case. Lets listen in. Im retired. Im not employed by anybody. Prior to your retirement by whom were you employed . City of Minneapolis Police department. And how long did you work for the city of Minneapolis Police department . 28 years. Can you describe for the jury the various roles that you had for the Minneapolis Police department . Yes, i will. I started in 193. I did six years as a 911 responder and went over to Public Housing for nine months as Public Housing officer and then from there i went to the fourth precinct and became a Community Response team member. I did that for 22 years. Now were you on duty on may 6th of 2019 . Yes, i was. Have you had an opportunity to review various Police Reports and Body Worn Cameras from an incident on that date . Yes, i have. On that date at 4 00 or just before 5 00 p. M. , did you execute a traffic stop of a redford explorer . Yes, i did. And did you approach the passenger side . Yes, i did. Can you describe just very briefly the initial interaction that you had with the passenger of that vehicle . I approached the vehicle. The passenger window was down. I started giving the individual that was in the passenger seat commands several times. The passenger was unresponsive and noncompliant to my commands. I had to physically reach in and because i wanteded to see his hands. I couldnt see his hands. I reached in finally and grabbed his hand to put it up on the dash. And that individual was taken from the vehicle and handcuffed. Okay. Did you make any observations as to the passengers behavior . Did you make any additional observations as to the passengers behavior . Yeah. In my mind, his behavior was very nervous, anxious. Objection, your honor. I will withdraw that question. Did you see the passenger do anything physically with his hands . Yes. He turned away from me towards the drivers seat continually as i was giving him commands to see his hands. Did you draw your Service Weapon . Yes, i did. Did you observe the passenger put anything in his mouth . Can you say that one more time . Did you observe the passenger put anything in his mouth . No, i didnt. Did you were you wearing a Body Worn Camera issued by the city of minneapolis on that day . Yes, i was. Have you had an opportunity to review your Body Worn Camera prior to todays testimony . Yes, i have. Your honor, based upon the order, i move to admit and publish exhibit 1051. All right. 1051 is received. If we may publish. Can you undo your seat belt, sir . Passenger . Can you undo your seat belt . Go ahead and undo your seat belt. Dont shoot me. I dont plan on shooting you. Take your time. Okay. Relax. Just undo your seat belt. Keep your hands where i can see them. Keep your hands where i can fucking see them okay . Put them up on the dash put them on the dash im not going shoot you. Put your hands on the dash put your hands on the dash. Last time im going to tell you that. Its simple. I got you. He keeps moving his hands around. He wont listen to what i have to say. Put your hands on the dash. Put them on your head. Okay. Okay, open your mouth. Spit out what you got. Spit out what you got . Im going to taze you. Dont jerk away from me. Put your hands behind your head. Now slow will you come on out. Put your hand on your head. Okay. Relax then. Youre not going get beat up or nothing. If you just follow what were asking you to do. Apologize, man. Apologize, man. Apologize. Yeah. Your honor, may we have sidebar . Sure. Okay. Brief sidebar here. That is a question from lawyers to the judge. We do have laura coates standing by. That is the First Defense witness. I have to ask you, laura, when you saw that video of the encounter between that officer and floyd in 2019, did that help the defense substantially in your view . How could it, jum . W jim, when he survived that encounter. Deadly use of force was not used. The officer said im not going to shoot you. People can take issue with the way he said it and the way in which officers speak during the interactions can be disturbing to people. He survived that encounter. He was not put upon with somebodys knee to his neck for 9 29. It strikes a cord, im sure with the jury to say heres the difference between what happened when somebody was a passenger in a vehicle and officer demanded the person get out of the car and what he eventually complied with and you contrast that with what happened on street deriving from an allegation of a counterfeit bill. This is the only attempt to undermine the character of george floyd and can okay, laura. Hold that thought. Brief conversation with the judge. Were back now to the defense with their first witness. The officer who arrested floyd in 2019. Good morning, officer crayton. Good morning. You testified that you were the officer who approached the passenger side of the vehicle. You approached george floyd on may 6 of 2019, is that right . Thats correct. Yes. You had your gun drawn when you approached mr. Floyd. Isnt right . He yshgs i pulled it, yes. And when you approach mr. Floyd, he said dont shoot me, man. I dont want to get shot. Right . Something like that, yes. You told him to undo his seat belt and did he that, right . Yes, he did. Will. And then you said put your hands where i can see them kreshgts . Yes. And then he put his hands in the air . Yes. And then you told him to hut his hands on the dash. Thats right. And thats when you grabbed his hand and put it on the dashboard of the vehicle, correct . Well, yes. And then the other officer with you on the other side of the vehicle said put your hands on your head, correct . Thats correct. And then he put his hands on his head, correct . Thats correct, yes. And there is one officer who said they were going to taze him, right . Thats right. You were yelling pretty loud, correct . Yes, i was. Yes. It escalated real quick. Some profanity as well, correct. Yes. And you had your gun drawn the whole time you were giving commands, right . Once i started ordering him and he refused to show me his hands, yes, i eventually it kaes la escalated to where i pulled my gun. And he was awake, correct . Thats what . Mr. Floyd was awake, right . Was he awake . Yes. He was conscious. He why. He didnt appear to be in medical distress to when you pulling him out of the car, is that right . He was talking to you . He was standing up . Is that right . I dont know if it was specifically sometimes he was talking, sometimes he was mumbling. He was incoherent in my mind a lot of the time during this. But you got him out of the car and handcuffed him, right . Thats correct, maam. And he stood next to the car, right . Yes, maam. He asked you not to beat him up, correct . Thats correct, yes. And he was able to walk . Right . Yes, he was. He continued to talk to you. Yes. Counsel, sidebar. Another suedidebar. The defense called their first witness. Laura coates still with us. Very quick questions from the defense lawyer there and then now on to the prosecution again. Did that surprise you . You want the first person out of the gate to have a huge impact. In the crossexamination, were learning that george floyd was compliant and that he was able to be handcuffed and he was speaking. There was some incoherence that he spoke about. Again, he was able to be taken into custody. And, again, 2019 is when this happened versus when he was actually killed on may 25th, 2020. So im not sure how the juice is worth the squeeze yet. It may be that the sidebar that is happening stemmed in part from the defense counsel asking for that to derail the fast pace of the crossexamination. At this point in time, the jury is thinking to themselves, why is this the person were hearing from . Remember, for the audience out there, the prosecution did seek to have different incidents of prior complaints about Derek Chauvin, the defendant. Why you are able to bring in the prior behavior offed zeed ent and not the defendant in this case chts its about the judges ruling and the overarching rule is whether you can show some mo or other analysis, they should not come n im wondering how this is analogous. And we should remember, the decision to allow discussion is 2019 arrest was one in dispute prior to the trial. Thank you, your honor. Here is the assistant attorney general continuing to question the witness. You got mr. Floyd out of the car, correct . Yes. He stood next to the car and you handcuffed him, correct . Me and another officer had to handcuff him, yes. He didnt fall down, correct . , no he didnt fall down. Nothing further, your honor. Anything further . Very brief. Officer, there was another oufr officer on the drivers side dealing with that driver . Yes. And that officer was speaking to or giving commands to the driver . Thats correct. Simultaneously to the time that you were giving commands to mr. Floyd . Thats correct. Did you hear the officer say spit it out . I may have, yes. I have to see the video. If thats what the video shows, then thats what occurred. Okay. I have no further questions. Anything further . You were asked questions about what the other officers were doing. You were interacting with mr. Floyd, correct . Yes. While you were interacting with mr. Floyd, he didnt collapse on the ground, correct . Can you speak up a little louder, maam . While you were interacting with mr. Floyd, he didnt collapse on the ground, correct . , no he did not. Well, the answer is stricken. The objection is sustained. Youre asking questions about what the other officers were doing. Thats correct. Your attention is focused on mr. Floyd, correct . Yeshg, it was. And mr. Floyd did not drop dead while interacting with him, correct . No. Nothing further. You may step down. Thank you, your honor. Weve just heard the completion of the testimony of the First Defense witness in the trial of Derek Chauvin. Theres the defense lawyer. Lets listen for the next witness. Hes getting the witness now. I want to tell what you is happening on the right hand side of our screen. This is the arrive will after the casket carrying the fallen Police Officer billy evans who died in an attack on the capitol april 2nd. A car ramming a barrier there. He will be carried up the steps of the capitol where you believe that is his family there waiting for this moment where he will will lie in honor. An honor reserved ford just about half a dozen americans in our countrys history. Reverend billy graham, rosa parks, officers killed in the 1998 attack on the capitol. We should note that President Biden is expected to attend this ceremony as evans lies in honor there. Well bring you that event as it happens. Mean meanwhile, we continue to monitor events in the courtroom. Moseng. And if youre comfortable taking off the mask, you can leave it up to you. It would make it easier to hear you. That will be appreciated. Thank you. Members of the jury, this again, is regarding an incident where occurrence involving george floyd on may 6th, 2019. As i told you before, this evidence is being admitted solely for the limited purpose of showing what effects the ingestion of oep idepioids may not have had on the physical wellbeing of george floyd. This evidence is not to be used as evidence of the character of george floyd. Mr. Nelson, you may inquire. Thank you. Good morning, maam. Good morning. By whom are you currently employed . Im retired. Okay. Prior to your retirement, where were you employed . I was paramedic. How long were au pair medic for Hennepin County . Just under 34 years. Can you describe the education that you have to become a paramedic . My i have a two year degree in Emergency Medical Care and rescue. And then actually got an additional registered nursing graduated from st. Marys university in 91. Okay. So you worked as a pair med uk for Hennepin County for the entirety of your career or other employment . I actually worked for a year in Dakota County for one year. And then i have worked at Hennepin County ever since. Fair to say youve gone through a large number of calls during the course of your career . Yes. And you may not remember every specific detail about every call. No. And as a paramedic, do you maintain records about each call that you go to in order to assess the patients care . Yes. We do a patient medical records that we hand off. Okay. Can you repeat that . Speak up just a little bit. Sorry. Prior to your testimony today, have you had an opportunity to review a run sheet from may 6th of 2019 involving George Perry Floyd . Yes. Do you recall all of those details off the top of your head now . No. All right. In terms of your recollection of may 6, 2019, were you summoned to the Minneapolis Police department . Yes. Precinct 4. To attend to mr. Floyd . Yes. Upon arriving at the fourth precinct, did you talk to mr. Floyd . Yes. Did you learn information from mr. Floyd about [ inaudible ] yeah. It was quite hard to assess him. He was upset and confused. Some of the things he said were objection, your honor. Im going to strike the answer as nonresponsive. Would you please lead . Certainly. Were you able to learn that mr. Floyd had consumed some narcotics that day . Yes. What did he tell you about what narcotics he had taun and when they had taun them . He told me he was taking multiple, like every 20 minutes, and it was i dont remember if it was oxy or something else. It was an opioidbased. It wasnt real consistent with his behavior at that point. It was Real Elevated and agitated. Strike, your honor. Objection. The last statement about theagethe agitation is stricken as nonresponsive. He informed you he had taken some sort of an opioid every 20 minutes or Something Like that, correct . And then another one as the officer came up. Okay. So he told you that he had taken a pill at the time the officers were apprehending him . Correct. Did you do a physical assessment plaintiff floyd at that time . Yes. Specifically, did you take his Blood Pressure . Yes. I took his invitals. Okay. Would you agree that your first vitals were taken at approximately 1 34 59 . Without looking at the run sheet, i wouldnt know for sure. Okay. Would it refresh your recollection to review the run sheet . Yes. May i approach the witness, your honor . Yes. Thank you. I have it written on here 13 34 was the first recorded vital signs. That refreshes your recollection . Yes do you need it back . Id like to testify that you need to refresh your memory with that, just let us know and well allow you to refresh your mem rich. Ote,