As prosectors played one video to McMillian the witness sobbed with grief on the stand, putting his head in his hands for several moments and reaching for tissues, after recalling Floyd calling out for his dead mother as he was struggling to stay alive.
“I feel helpless,” McMillian told the court. “I don’t have a mama either. I understand him.”
Meanwhile, in newly released police body camera footage, shown to the jury on day three of testimony, Chauvin can be heard interacting with McMillian.
The footage, from Chauvin’s body camera, marks the first time the former Minneapolis police officer has been heard in public offering any explanation for his actions in pinning Floyd to the street during an arrest.