is despite the lack of experience, what did these officers know in terms of their training in the academy, and just whatever limited experience they had in the course of that training as to how to respond in such a dire circumstance. we have to remember, this was 9:29 of opportunity where it goes to the consciousness of that decision, that they just failed to do anything. they engaged in the pss, maybe we should role him over on his side. no, i think prosecutoro bring in law enforcement witnesses, also experts who will testify about what any officer, despite scope of experience, should have done under these circumstances. perhaps called for backup, perhaps physically intervened and peeled chauvin off the floyd s neck. that s the pivotal question, what more they could have done.
deliberately were indifferent to the serious medical needs that floyd was showing under the knee of derek chauvin and specifically that thao and kueng did not intervene or try to stop derek chauvin. the prosecutor said over the course of her opening statement that each made a conscious choice over and over again. they chose not to intervene and stop chauvin as he killed a man. they chose not to protect george floyd, the man they handcuffed. then went on to tell the jury, you ll see the ambulance arrive, and it wasn t the defendants that got chauvin off of floyd, it was those first responders. now, i should also mention all of these former officers have pleaded not guilty to these charges. their defenses ranged from, well, the video and what the crowd saw didn t tell the full story of what happened, that they tried to do something but were shut down by chauvin. and that they were deferring to the senior officer on the scene in chauvin. i should also note chauvin is not a defendant in th
because, craig, and shaq kind of pointed this out in his interview with the defense attorney, one thing we re going to see the defense do is try to isolate each defendant. two of those officers were only on the force for about five or six months, so they re going to really argue, hey, we were following the lead of an 18-year veteran. and the other officer who was on for several years is probably going to make that same argument but it s not going to come off as credibly as the other two who had less than a year. again, what the prosecution is most likely going to do say you ve been on the force for five years, before that you had the police academy. you had sufficient training such that you knew this man was incapable of breathing, moving resisting. in fact, you didn t need specialized training for that. all of these bystanders were telling you and an off-duty emt told you. why didn t you call, why didn t you push chauvin off?
purchase something at the cup foods with a fake $20 bill. while explaining his attempt to put floyd into the squad car, king said he struggled and at one point, he said, quote, floyd s legs kind of collapsed without reason. king testified training taught him if someone can talk, they can breathe. and he admits he laughed when chauvin said, quote, it takes a lot of oxygen to talk. he says that was a reference to a previous field training call they made together at a hospital. he described it as a brief moment of levity. and here s another exchange between keung and the prosecution. take a look. prosecutor saying, quote, you didn t do anything to get mr. chauvin off of mr. floyd when paramedics arrived, correct? he agrees. and sertich also said, you didn t move out of the way, either? and kueng also agrees.