Train. A reasonable Police Officer will hear what the crowd is saying, he will compare his actions to what they are saying, and he will determine, i know im being recorded, right . I know im being recorded. Theyre saying im doing something thats awful looking. Am i doing this . You cant keep your knee on his head, bro. Youre trapping his breathing right there, bro. Bro, youre being a bum right now. Get him off the ground, bro. Youre being a bum. You can see officer chauvins body language tells us a lot, right . Thats what we just heard. Looking down, looking up, looking around, looking down, looking over, looking around. Hes comparing a reasonable Police Officer, hes doing what a reasonable Police Officer would do. Hes comparing his actions, his own actions, in response to what the crowd is saying. A reasonable Police Officer, again, will rely on his training. March of 2020, tactics of a crowd. Never underestimate a crowds potential. Most crowds are compliant. Crowds are very dynamic c
Are you cautious . Who is with you . Whats the mood . Where are you . And he said philonise and i are in the courthouse. He said the family has faith that Derek Chauvin will be found criminally liable for killing george floyd, and, again, thats from ben crump, the family attorney, and as has been reported earlier, philonise george, the brother of george floyd will be in the courtroom when the verdict is ruled and hes there now with the family attorney and the family attorney, i would imagine together, and they are cautiously optimistic considering the time that it took the jury to deliberate, wolf, and come up with a verdict that its going to be at least in their favor, not exactly sure how they are going to rule on all the charges but there you go, thats the latest from the family and the attorney, wolf blitzer. Well be checking back with them all the time. Sara sidner, just managed to reconnect with you. First of all, tell us where you are and tell us what youre seeing. Reporter all
Problem and suddenly they become a problem. It can change in an instant. A reasonable Police Officer will take into consideration his immediate surroundings. Are there bystanders, civilians . A reasonable Police Officer will take into consideration who he is at the scene with. Are these veteran officers . Are they rookie officers . What do i know about my partners and my partners abilities . Throughout the course of this trial, the state has focused your attention on 9 minutes and 29 seconds. The proper analysis is to take those 9 minutes and 29 seconds and put it into the context of the totality of the circumstances that a reasonable Police Officer would know. The proper analysis starts with, what did the officer what would a reasonable officer know at the time of dispatch . These are records that have been kept. They have been introduced. You can look at them. This is exhibit 151. This is the Computer Aided Dispatch report. You heard the testimony of the 911 dispatcher. This is infor
For persons in crisis every single year. This is nothing new. They are there on a 20 counterfeiting charge. They train for this. They know about this. Now, george floyd certainly had his struggles. You know that. The state put in evidence of that. Courtney ross testified he struggled with an opioid addiction. You knew that. This is nothing new. The difference, though, on may 25, 2020 the officers just wouldnt listen to him, wouldnt look at the signs, recognize the signs of what they had prepared for and a reasonable officer in the defendants place with all his training and all his experience, including that 40hour crisis intervention course and subsequent refresher course should have known and recognized that. Floyd was trying to get into the car and work up the courage. He said he would count to three. He just couldnt do it. So the defendant arrives on the scene. He surveys the scene. He saunters up to the car and he slips on his gloves. [video playing] im not going anywhere. You cant
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 .