The Derek Chauvin trial continues today in Minneapolis.
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In this still image from video, surgeon for the Louisville Metro Police Department Dr. Bill Smock is seen shortly after sitting at the witness stand in the trial of Derek Chauvin on Thursday, April 8. (Forum News Service.)
Watch a livestream of the trial and find live updates below.
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5:20 p.m. Court in recess until Friday morning
Attorneys concluded their questioning of Dr. Bill Smock in the trial of Derek Chauvin shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday.
UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 9:43 am CT
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A grand jury has indicted former Minneapolis police officers Derek Chavuin, Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao on federal civil rights charges. (Minnesota Department of Corrections)
MINNEAPOLIS A federal grand jury Friday indicted former Minneapolis police officers Derek Chauvin, Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao on civil rights violations in the death of George Floyd.
Chauvin was also indicted in a separate Sept. 4, 2017 incident. He is accused of holding a 14-year-old by the throat and hitting the teenager multiple times in the head with a flashlight without legal justification.
The three-count indictment in the death of Floyd claims that the four men acting in their capacity as police officers willfully deprived Mr. Floyd of his constitutional rights. Their actions resulted in Floyd s death, the indictment states.
That view conflicted somewhat with the Hennepin County Medical Center’s autopsy of Floyd, which labeled his death a homicide and attributed it to cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression. Dr. Andrew Baker, who performed the autopsy, said as a witness for the prosecution that being restrained was, in combination with his underlying heart conditions just more than Mr. Floyd could take.
Floyd’s heart health and drug ingestion were a major focus for Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, who sought to portray them as having more to do with the death than his client did.
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A juror who participated in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin gave his account of how the jury decided to convict him of all three counts in connection with the killing of George Floyd. Ever since the verdict was announced, the trial has become the subject of national debate.
Many on the right argued that it was the threat of riots, not the prosecution’s case, that motivated the jurors to convict Chauvin. However, according to the latest juror to speak out on the decision, this assertion is inaccurate.
Brandon Mitchell, a 31-year-old high school basketball coach also known as juror No. 52 recently participated in an interview with the
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