Sorry, you were there the entire time until he was loaded into the ambulance, correct . Correct. At some point you made i guess the question is there. You made that video available to them, correct . Correct. And, you know, why did you think it was important to record that . Because memories of witnesses are never going to be as good as a video. So you wanted to have it to preserve. It wasnt conscious, but im sure thats why anybody takes a video. Yeah. Just bear with me a second while i try to read my own handwriting. After recording that video you stopped recording at some point, correct . I dont remember. Obviously you did stop at some point. Yeah. And and and eventually the ambulance took mr. Floyd away. Correct. And then earlier i said wed come back to the moment in the previous video in exhibit 11 when the ambulance left and you were Still Standing on the sidewalk. Umhum is that yes . Yes. And we saw you just standing there. Whats going through your mind as youre standing there . I im not sure. I think i probably was in disbelief. And were you in shock . Yes. And what and at some point then did you also make a 911 dal . Yes. And it had to be sort of i think distressing is the word you had used before. When you were there and you were trying to help and couldnt, did you have a feeling of helplessness . Absolutely. Were you upset about that . Yes. Did you feel that, you know, whatever the end results were you could have tried to help . Objection. Sustained. Well, why did you feel helpless . Because theres a man being killed and i would have had i had accessp to a call similar to that i would have been able to provide medical attention to the best of my abilities and and this human was denied that right. And so from that point, we saw you standing there on the sidewalk. Just sort of standing still. Yes. And from there did you stay in the area for a little while. Yes. And at some point you made a 911 call. Yes. Why at that point did you call 911 . I think it all settled in that i wish i would have done that immediately because it was ridiculous that fire station 17 was as close at it was and they hadnt been there. I should have called 911 immediately and i didnt and when things calmed down i realized that i wanted them to know what was going on. I wanted to basically report it. And so you made that call, correct . Correct. And a little bit more than a minute long. At some point they wanted to transfer to you a supervisor . Correct. I asked for that. But then the call ends. Okay. Do you remember why the call ended at that point . I dont know exactly but there was kind of a lot going on. I was still worried about the wednesday on scene. Particularly because they were people of color, black men, and i was worried about their safety and the officers still on scene but also fire came and i and it may have been that i ended the call because my coworkers were there and i could tell them what was going on. So tell us about that. So at some point when youre there at the scene, did the fire truck come . Yes. And they are coming to respond to the call, correct . They are coming to respond to the call, and they went into cup foods actually to look for a victim. Which is umeek for that for there to be that much miscommunication. Let me just ask you a little different question. So when they came, those firefighters, did you know them . I knew two of them. And how many total came . Four. The driver, two firefighters and a captain. So the two that you knew, how did you know them . Crossing paths at work. So they knew who you were . Yes. So you knew that members of the Fire Department knew you were on scene but off diet, of course. Yes. So you are a conversation with them while at cup foods. Yes. And you also had courses with other people who stuck around afterwards. The driver and the other fire fighter who werent in the ambulance came back and i also spoke to them. I have no further questions, your honor. The witness may stand and stretch, if you like. This has been extremely powerful and emotional testimony from genevieve clara hansen. She was onoffduty minnesota firefighter who at the time happened to be walking by this scene when the former Police OfficerDerek Chauvin had his knee on the neck of george floyd, and she delivered a really powerful, very emotional explanation of what she saw. She could have engaged in emergency help to try to save the life of george floyd. She wanted to. She asked the Police Officers there on the scene if she could interview to try to get him some sort of life support. Hold on a minute. Lets go back. Just had some followup questions for you. Thank you for being here with us today. You testified that youve been a firefighter now for two years approximately . Correct. And i see youre wearing your uniform today . Correct. And that would be like your dress uniform or your class a uniform. Correct. And thats common to wear when you testimony in court. Correct. Fair to say were you not wearing any uniform on may 25th 20, 20. Correct. I was offduty. Being a firefighter is a stressful job . Correct. You testified about your experience as an emt. We didnt talk much about your firefighter training. Okay. So you said you went through a fourmonth academy . Correct. And in that academy i assume you learn like the basics of fire, right . Correct. Like different types of backdrafts hand whatever . Construction, right. How to approach a fire, how to, you know where to aim the hose i guess. Yes, but fire is fire. But sometimes you probably have to come from the top down or from the bottom up, right . Different always. Right. And you learn about like going into a burning building, right . Right. Being safe, being caution. Right. Again, its part of what you have to learn is how to deal with the stress of being a firefighter. Right. Do they either in the academy or in your continuing training do you have trainings that focus on how to deal with the physical react to stress . We we do go over that in our trainings throughout the continuing ed. Also i think youre suited or not for the job. Sure. Takes a certain type of person to do the job. Right. But breathing becomes important, right . Right. You put on and oxygen tank, a mask. Right. Youve got to know how to breathe properly. Controlling your breathing, right. And sometimes you may go into a situation thats not totally on fire and you may not have your mask on, youre running upstairs to save someones life, again, controlling your breathing. Right. And you learn about have you ever heard the term tunnel vision as a part of Fire Training . Not necessarily not necessarily as a part of Fire Training, but i know what tunnel vision is. So whenhour stresz you kind of focus on a particular thing. Right. And it kind of changes your peripheral vision and you become hyperfocused, right . Mmhmm. So youre familiar with that and may investigation appearance that had in the context of your Fire Fighting . Yes. And obviously and im assuming that sometimes youre not able to save everyone, right . Correct. And that theres a level of trauma that comes with that, right . Sometimes. Right. Depending on the circumstances . Correct. You also test that you have both a national and state certification as an emt, right . Correct. That stands for emergency medical technician. Thats First Responder stuff, correct . Medical training for First Responders . I believe that theres more basic. I mean, i think the Police Officers are not emergency medical technicians. But its not as high as like a paramedic. Correct. So a paramedic has even more training than an emt. Yes. And obviously maybe the cpr you learned to become a lifeguard was less less intensive than what it took to become an emt, right . I took i took it much more seriously because i was practicing it and using it, but its its the same. Yeah. But in your emt training you also learn like tourniquets and splinting. Yes. All of these sort of assessment and emergency first responsive care . Yep. Okay. And you testify that you because youve only been a firefighter for two years, youve been in several burning buildings . Correct. Now have you ever been in a burning building or outside. Lets say youre outside. Let me ask you a hypothetical question. Youre outside of a burning building, and you are spraying the hose on the fire. Has anyone ever tried to come up to you and say youre doing it wrong . No. Do you think that has anyone ever stopped to film you when youre fighting a fire . Yes. Okay. So you see someone, youre fighting a fire. Yes. And someone starts to film you. Im sorry, your honor. Its not conscious. Its not a normal conversation so we get it. We all started talking at one time. Its its unusual but im sorry and ill try to slow down, too. All right. So youre fighting a fire, right, and you may notice a citizen filming what youre doing . Correct. And that would not necessarily interfere with your ability to fight a fire, right . No. Have you ever had a citizen start to yell at you while youre fighting a fire . No. Do you think it would make your job fighting the fire harder if someone started yelling at you and telling you that you were doing it wrong . Im very confident in the training that ive been given so i i would not be concerned about somebody that was not trained to the extent that i would been and i would continue to fight the fire the way that i would. No. What if there were 12 people yelling at you and telling you that you were doing it wrong . I think a burning structure in a city where there are buildings and homes and People Living on either side is much more concerning than 20 people trying to tell me to do something different. Right. But you wouldnt be distracted by that at all . No. What if they started calling you names . Like i said, i know my job, and im i would be confident in doing my job and theres nothing anybody could say that would distract me. Okay. So what if they started to physically threaten you . Ill repeat myself because im confident in my job and what i do and what needs to be done and my training, so i would continue to do that. What what is staging . What does it mean when a Fire Department stages at an incident . Its always different, but we can stage do wait for someone to assess what exactly is going on and how we need to tackle that particular call. So lets assume that theres a call and the police are on scene at the call, right . Sorry to interrupt. Are you talking about a medical call. We stage for different things. Sure. Lets leave it as a medical call. Okay. And theres some trouble at the scene. Does do you just come right in, into that emergency call or does fire . Have you ever been called to the scene where the police didnt call you . Meek the police were present and they werent the ones that called you . Can you repeat the question. Sure. Its a little confusing. Police go to a scene, right, and whatever is happening at the scene, and they just dont ever call for medical even though theres a medical situation. Well, i wouldnt know because that means i wasnt called to it. Precisely, right . So if you go to a scene its because you are responding to a call, right . Correct. And the reason you are there is the police call you. If the police are on the scene first. And so in a situation where you see someone having a medical emergency, right, wouldnt it be reasonable to awesome that the police have already called for medics. It would also be reasonable to assume that if the patient was cuffed i didnt. Im going to say objection, nonresponsive. The answer will be stricken. Wait for the question and then answer the question that is asked. Its a yes or no question, maam. Is it reasonable to assume that if a patient is having a medical emergency and the police are present that they have called for ems . Your question is unclear because you dont know my job so okay. I cant answer. Sure. So lets lets take this scene, right. May 25th, 2020. You walk upon a scene. You see someone having a medical emergency, right . You did not call 911 to get the medics there, right . Right. Would it have been reasonable to assume that medics had already been called based on what you saw when you first arrived . Yes. And in fact paramedics did respond, right. You saw the ambulance come up . Yes. Thats not their normal Response Time. And so you noticed there was some abnormal Response Time for medics . Right, and i also noticed that that is precisely the kind of call that fire would respond to and station they called for medical. So Police Called dispatch. They decide medics or fire . Well, it would be medic. It would be fire with medics, not just fire. I dont have an answer to that. But ultimately the medics did arrive . Right . Yeah. And you have no frame of reference. That presumes that the fire vehicle was not on another call . It would have been in a different station the nearest two other stations would have been able to respond to that call in three minutes. So if you first walked on scene at 8 26. 29, thats what we just saw, 8 26. 29. Okay. And paramedics and paramedics had been called at 8 21, thats an abnormal Response Time based on your experience . What time did you say i arrived . 8 26. 29. And the medics were there at what time . The medics were called at 8 21, code three. I dont believe that. But, again, you have no frame of reference, right . Youve not seen any police reports. Youve not looked at the cads or heard the 911 call. You didnt listen to dispatch that night, did you . No, not that night. But thats totally abnormal. All right. And foyer would have been added to that call because we go to calls like that all the time. Right. And so it was abnormal it would be completely and totally abnormal in your experience for it to take that long to get to the scene . Absolutely. All right. And are you familiar with the term load and go . Yes. And i believe you had a conversation with the bca agents shortly after this incident, and you described what you observed as far as the paramedics with what is called the load and go . Correct. And that is essentially, as i understand it, paramedics arrive, some something is amiss at the scene so we put them into the ambulance and we move the ambulance to another. A safe location to address the needs. Right. And thats what you observed here, right . Correct. And thats because there were quite a few people and those people were all fairly upset, right . Correct. And so in your mind as a paramedic with the experience that you emt. As an emt, i apologize, but as an emt youve done load hand goes before . Weve done load and goes, yeah. Right, and so the reason that the medics did not commence at least has far as you understood, commence resuscitative efforts for mr. Floyd is because they were doing a load and go, get him away. Correct. Im going to object to that. Overruled. Thats what you told the agents, right . Emember exactly what i told the agents, but it looked like had a load and go to me. Okay. Now in terms of your, again, personal experience or excuse me on that day, the paramedics drove off and then at some other point a couple minutes later is when the truck the fire truck arrives, right . Right, and thats how i knew there was something wrong when asked medical assistance. Okay. Because the Fire Department showed up at cut foods and the ambulance had already left and gone to another location . No, more because the fire fire whether its 17 or at different station would have been able to respond to that call much sooner than medics were. All right. So in a i mean, you kind of formed that opinion on that day, but there were some miscommunications between medics and fire and police . Right, which i mean, not to the fault of medics or fire. We get a call and we go. Okay. So it was it was police and dispatch that that miscommunication would have come in. Okay. And, again, that five or sixminute delay is just unheard of in your experience . Yes, not by medics but by fire specifically are you trade as an emt in the use of narcan. Yes. I and can you is explain what narcan generally is. Its an opioid reversal medication. We give it intranasally. A lot of people on the street have an injectable form. Kind of like an epipen almost. Yeah, kind of. You testified that the firehouse that you work at, you deal with a lot of overdose calls. Correct. And so youve had a lot of experience dealing with people overdosing. Correct. From opiate or from other controlled substances. Correct. And you have seen you have seen or dealt with many people who come out of an opiate overdose because of narcan . We still get a visual and well monitor for pulse. Ive never not had narcan, but we do give medical attention to somebody who has had opioid and loss there. Is it Fire Department policy when you are going to a call, an overdose, that they would send dispatch to that call . Baas. Not often . Im sorry. Ive steen happen. Your testimony about may 25th of 2020, you were out for a walk because it was your day off, right . Umhmm. Is that a yes . Yes. Sorry. You are out for a walk and youre walking down youre walking westbound on 38th street and you see the lights and you said its not uncommon to see lights there . In my neighborhood, not on that corner but in my neighborhood or in the city. Right. Okay. And as you walked what would be the southeast corner of 38th and chicago you heard you heard a woman yelling that they are killing him, right . Right. So you did this kind of circle loop to visualize and see what was going on, right . Right. And at the point that you came on scene mr. Floyd was already on the ground, right . Correct. And mr. Floyd, you saw what your memory told you was four Police Officers on you, correct . Correct. And you now know that it was three, right . Right. And i think you made some reference about why you videotaped because our memories are fallible. Correct. And, again, a stressful situation can impact your memory, right . Absolutely. Thats why were lucky it was videotaped. Right. Its also fair to say that once you kind of came you first talked to officer thao and you said that you identified yourself as a minneapolis firefighter, right . Correct. And officer thai asked you to step on to the curb and you did that, right . Correct. And you would agree that when you first arrived on scene your own personal im just talking but personally, your own personal demeanor was much more calm. Correct. And as were you there between 8 26 and 8 30, so in about those four minutes, you would agree that your own demeanor got louder and more frustrated and upset . From us trade im not sure is the word i would use. Angry . More desperate. Okay. And you called the officers a bitch, right . I got quite angry after mr. Floyd was loaded into the ambulance and there was no point in trying to reason with them anymore because they had just killed somebody. So in terms of the in terms of the time that you were there, you have no idea what those officers were doing on the side of the car, right . The officers that i couldnt see from my vantage point, is that what youre asking . Right. You dont know what they were doing. I couldnt see the two Junior Officers except for maybe like their shoulders up. And so its fair to say you dont know what they were dock. Correct. You dont know what they were talking about. The two of them, no. And there was a again, you described a fairly large crowd, so, 12 people that were all in that general area. Mmhmm. And several people were yelling, right . Right. And some people were yelling louder than others, right . Right. And some a lot of people were saying things like get off of him, right . Right. And a lot of people you yourself were saying i want to know what his pulse is, right . Yeah. And some some people were swearing . Absolutely. And would you describe other peoples demeanors as upset or angry . Its i dont know if youve seen anybody be killed, but its upsetting. I was just going to object, your honor as argumentive and proceed. Im going to ask you ask my questions as i answer them to you, okay . You also talked about how when you first approached you saw the complete and total body weight of all three officers on mr. Floyd i never said all three officers. I their body weight was on him, the two in the back, their full body weight was seeming to be on him but thats not something that would kill. All right. And the but you you testified okay, yes. That the body weight. Yes, the body weight. Just answer his questions, if you would. So just to be clear for the report. You tifd yes let me finish my question. Finish the question. You testified that when you first arrived you observed the weight of all three officers on mr. Floyd, yes or no . Yes. But, again, once you were ushered or commanded or directed, whatever term you want to use to the you, again, went as far as the other two office others, you were not watching who had thai weight where or when . Correct. The other two officers i could see them. A lot of people were yelling, and, again, you were not paying attention to what they were saying . So do you remember what the officers were talking about . The officers, no . They werent talking. All right. You also testified that as you were observing mr. Chauvin on mr. Floyd, and you described him as comfortable . Correct. You also testified that you observed what you thought to be fluid coming from mr. Floyds body, and you assigned that or you believed that to be urine . I i considered that it was and took that as a sign. Do you recall telling the agents that it was his urine . I dont recall. And you said that you you testified thattur focus became really sort of zoomed in on trying to get the attention of the officers, right . Not the attention so much as trying to reason with them and gain access to get medical attention. Okay. And up testified that you believe that the voices of the other people interfered with you getting their attention . I was worried about it. But i know that thao could hear me talking because he was responding to me directly. Now in terms of your the statement that you gave, you were interviewed by agents lund, matthew lund and agent james ryerson. Do you recall those names . No. And would you dispute me if i told you that those interviews took place on may 28th of 2020 . No. And before coming into court, did you have an opportunity to review your statement at all . I had the opportunity to, but i didnt. Okay. You never read the transcript of your statement . I chose not to. Okay. I just want to just ask you a few questions. You said that officer thao at some point said if youre really a firefighter, you should know better. Correct. And have you been to other scenes where people are trying to interfere with Police Officers doing their jobs . No, not really. Not that i can recall. Do you remember telling the agents that you believed that officer chauvin had his hands in his pocket . I vaguely remember saying that. Do you recall telling the agents that you were pretty certain the flowed coming from mr. Floyds body was . Im sure i said that. Do you recall describing the crowd . I dont. Would it refresh your recollection to review the transcript of your statement . Would you dispute me if i told you that you told the agents it was a heav y crowd . Do you recall the firefighters who arrived and how you described the physical appearance plaintiff floyd . I dont recall. Do you recall telling him your honor, im going to object. I dont want argument. Whats your grounds . [ inaudible ] sustained. I know you dont want to look at your transcript, but may i approach the witness you may. Miss hansen, let me put you to page it a 25. Im going to ask you to read the underlined portions of your text. Yeah. Does that refresh your recollection of the conversation . Yeah. Did you describe mr. Floyd as a small slim man . Same objection. Overruled. Yeah, it appeared with three grown men on top of somebody it appeared that he was small and frail. Okay. But i know that not to be true now. Theres no question. I was finishing my answer. [ inaudible ] were outside the hearing of the jury, miss hansen. Im advising do not argue with counsel and specifically do not argue with the court are the cameras off . No, they are not. Were on the record. Okay. You will not argue with the court. Youll not argue with counsel. Mmhmm. They have the right to ask questions. Your job is to answer them. I was finishing my answer. I will determine when your answer is done. Okay, well do not argue with the court. Do not argue with counsel and answer the questions. Do not roll tier information that is not requested. The attorneys for the state have redirect. They can ask you questions if they think that certain things were left out. Okay. It is counsels prerogative to ask you leading questions and for you to answer those and not volunteer additional information. Okay. Are we clear on this . Okay. Thank you. Come back tomorrow at 9 30. All right. Good night. Do we have a person with a cell phone . Could we arrange to have that person come down. Somebody from the state have access to that, sglees if you could have that person come in. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Weve been watching cnns continuous live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin, and we just heard very emotional and powerful frahm an offduty firefighter describing a very vivid and heartbreaking detail what she saw at the scene of George Floyds death. So far multiple witnesses on this day. They have offered very compelling, very consistent accounts of floyds final moments there on the ground. One man telling the court it felt like he was witnessing a murder. Ore witnesses revealing that chauvin seemed to kneel on floyds neck even harder and harder as onlookers begged him to simply stop. Chauvins defense team insists he was distracted by the crowd. Lets get right to our Senior National correspondent sara sidner covering this trial for us in minneapolis. Sara, the testimony from todays witnesses that we just heard are very, very painful emotional testimony from this offduty firefighter. It paints a disturbing picture of chauvins actions during the final minutes of George Floyds life. Not only a disturbing picture but an incredibly clear picture. The witnesses that we have heard from today, including genevieve hansen, who was the emt and fire fighter who happened to walk by the scene, she happened to see the officer on top of george floyd and she saw Derek Chauvin in particular on George Floyds neck with his knee pressing down, and you could hear how frustrated she was because of her training, because she is a trained emt. She says she was looking at George Floyds face and that it looked swollen hand that his face looked like it was pressed very hard into the ground, and she felt that something needed to happen. She felt like he was coming to the end of life, and the fact that she was the untable do anything because the police were not letting her anywhere near george floyd even though she was asking him again and again did you check his pulse, did you check his pulse and every time when she asked when they didnt do it, she gotmore and more from us trade, angry as she said watching this play how the because she felt helpless and she had the training to try and help if the police would have just let her try and help, so you could hear her frustration on the stand, and then she is crossexamined by chauvins attorney who starts to question her training which she did she clearly did not like and requested whether she remember what had she really remembered or not, and she kind of said, look, at least theres video so at least somebody, thank goodness somebody was taking video, but there was an admonishment at the very end from the judge because there was a bit of combativeness between her and chauvins attorney who was asking her questions about whether she was upset, for example, seeing what was happening to george floyd, hand she says, well, he was dying, so wouldnt you be upset . They were killing him. The judge admonishing her telling her that she just has to answer the questions. That its their right to ask the questions but clearly her testimony was incredibly powerful, not only because of what she said but she is sitting there in her uniform. She is obviously a professional. She is obviously an emt and a firefighter. She had all the answers to her training, and that is going to have a huge impact, i imagine, on this jury. Wolf . At one point she said that she saw what was what she was seeing on the ground there. She saw a man she said theres a man being killed. She said i wanted to help and then she said this human was denied that kind of help. And then later she said they somebody being killed, but its upsetting. She was very, very strong in making those comments. And at one point we all saw her break down. She had to wipe away tears. Reporter yeah. And weve seen that over and over and over again today, wolf. She, again, you cant help but imagine the ripple effects of not only that these were individuals there in person watching this happen and feeling helpless. You saw her tear up and break down on the stand. And this is a person who deals with difficult situations, medical situations on a regular basis, but this particular situation really struck her. And that is going to also strike the jury. She called 911 and she told the 911 dispatch that they are killing someone, that the police are killing someone. That is going to resonate. It resonates with those who are watching the trial outside and it certainly is going to resonate with those who are sitting there, the 14 jurors, 12 jurors and two alternates watching this play out. She was just one of several people who had incredibly vivid emotional strong testimony for the prosecution today, wolf. Very powerful witnesses. Very emotional. Youre absolutely right, sara. Stay with us. I want to bring in bacardi sellers, hes an attorney. Bacari, tell us what you thought at the end of this Dramatic Exchange that this off duty firefighter had with the defense attorney eric nelson. We heard the judge peter cahill, he was upset, he was angry at her. Explain that. I think that you saw the witness become someone unravelled as the testimony went through. A lot of it has to do with the fact that this is very emotional. A lot of it has to do with the fact that the cross examination sometimes just gets on your nerves. But you begin to see that attend. And she was being impeached. She made a statement to Law Enforcement officers and her testimony wasnt consistent with that statement, which is why the defense attorney went up to the podium, asked did she want to read her statement. He asked her multiple times to go back and say what you stated to Law Enforcement, because it is not what youre testifying to in court. Thats when you saw the combativeness, she was being impeached. She talked about the fact that it was very difficult seeing someone being murdered. She was there to talk about that Law Enforcement wouldnt let her give him care. The defense did a good job of bringing out the fact that they had already called emts whether or not she believed it or not. The time stamps will have to show. But i thought she became unravelled as this went on and the jury saw that. There are going to be a lot of people keeping score saying, oh my gosh, she did this, she did that. But you have to look at the totality of this. This is just one witness. The other witnesses were really good. The young lady, my heart broke, the young man who talked about them trying to make him angry. He was open and honest. Natalie, what did you make of the line of questioning we heard from the defense attorney . The argument seems to be that the officers were distracted, they claim, by people trying to help george floyd. Thats the wrong road to go down. I think what his argument is, is that people who were trying to save someone from being killed were distracted the killer. Im not sure that is a good argument to make. To go back to genevieve hanson, i thought she was very effective. Shes the only witness thats on their level. Shes a Public Servant just like them. She has a duty to protect and serve just like them. I think her being angry about the situation and imputing her anger onto the defense attorney because hes the closest thing to Derek Chauvin. That to me, i think that will really stick to the jury and the fact that she felt this was wrong, she felt that Derek Chauvin actually killed george floyd. And she said it. And the fact is that she herself and this is pretty extraordinary on the scene made a 911 call herself. Thats extraordinary. What weve seen is exactly what the prosecution has promised. Weve seen people being brought to the stand who called the police on the police, every one of these witnesses, which is pretty extraordinary to me. And youve seen this bouquet of humanity. Youve seen people break down and cry. Exactly what he said in opening that he was going to present a bouquet of humanity. It was so heartbreaking bacari, earlier in the day, witnesses, young people, we couldnt see their faces because they were not adults, but we heard their voices. Several of them were simply saying it was so upsetting to them that to this day they have trouble sleeping, wondering would they have done more. That was a heart wrenching moment. That was a heart wrenching moment. When you promise something in opening statements, you have to deliver. And the prosecution has delivered on everything they promised. What theyre doing is and i think this is probably even more valuable by showing all of these individuals who themselves, whether or not they were emts or firefighters or whether or not they were just bystanders, them making that call of calling the police on the police, like she said, is extremely, extremely powerful. Even more importantly, the prosecution is and i could see them drawing this line theyll bring up in closing all of these people who witnessed this, from the youngest young ladies that we saw to firefighters to whomever watched this, all had compassion for this man, compassion that Law Enforcement did not. So i see that line being drawn right now. This is just day two. I mean, we have to realize that all of these little pieces fit into a puzzle and the jury is going to consume all of this as we move toward a verdict, hopefully a guilty verdict for murder. This trial is only just beginning. It could go on for several weeks right now. What specifically jumped out at you during this day . So many things, wolf. Donald williams, i know we dont like using the term star witness, but he was one of their star witnesses because he spoke to passionately and so very clearly about how he was feeling at the time and then what he said to 911 dispatch. I mean, hes telling the dispatchers, theyre killing him, theyre killing him over and over again. And when he is asked, well, why did you call 911, he said i was calling the police on the p police. Then he was asked by the prosecutor, well, why were you doing that, he said because they had just killed a man. That was incredibly powerful prose. And the entire jury and anyone listening to that would have sat up in their chair to hear that, because it is such an unusual thing to hear somebody say they called 911 on Police Officers who are already there. I talked to a prosecutor who talked about the fact that hed never heard that in his 20 years of being in trial. You know what else stood out to me . The emotion that you heard on the girl who was 17 years old, the one who took the viral video that the entire world saw, when you heard her struggling in her everyday day wondering if she could have done more for george floyd, if that did not break somebodys heart, i dont know what would. That was incredibly compelling. It told you about the deep humanity of this young person, who recognized that something was absolutely wrong. And yet the Police Officers, who are grown men, did not see the same thing . That is hard to believe, that they couldnt see what a young person was seeing. And then we heard from a 9yearold girl, who said it made her sad and it made her mad, what she was seeing. Words from a childs mouth were as clear and as powerful as the adults who spoke. And smartly, the defense did not cross examine that child, because what can you say to a child when she is simple telling you she knew what she saw was bad, that it made her sad and those are the things that stood out to me today and i think those are the things that will stand out to the jury at this point in time. Seeing the video over and oe over again and hearing the eyewitness accounts, especially from those young people, it was heartbreaking to know that for the rest of their lives theyre going to question themselves, wonder did they do enough to try to save this mans life. Everybody stand by. Were only beginning our special coverage here in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Its the top of the hour. Weve been watching extremely dramatic, very powerful, emotional testimony in the trial of former Police OfficerDerek Chauvin. The court just wrapped up for the day. You saw it live here on cnn after emotional firsthand accounts of George Floyds arrest. One bystander declaring he believed he witnessed a murder. Other witnesses describing in great detail chaurch vin kneeli harder and harder on George Floyds neck as the crowds were pleading, pleading for him to simply stop. The defense repeatedly arguing that those crowds were a distraction and they claimed a potential threat to chauvin and other Police Officers. A firefighter also took the stand, moved to tears, as we