than nine minutes. use of force expect, jody steiger, a sergeant with the lapd returned to the stand and made it clear that force should not have been used once george floyd was handcuffed and on the ground and that the risks were very well known. because at the time of the restraint period, mr. floyd was not resisting. he was in the prone position. he was handcuffed. he was not attempting to evade, not attempting to resist and the pressure that was being caused by the body weight could cause positional asphyxia which could cause death. two days ago the emergency room doctor who received floyd at the hospital said it was his belief that the causes of floyd s death was, in fact, a lack of oxygen. the defense is trying its best to dispews that. attorney eric nelson put the spotlight on george floyd. nelson played part of a police body cam video and can be heard floyd saying, quote, i ate too many drugs. after the next witness, james ryerson, the minnesota law enforcement ag
pardon. he faces allegations that range from paying for sex to alleged sex with an underaged girl. to be clear, he denied all of those allegations and he s not been charged with a crime. but the times reports something striking. they have two people who were told of high level discussions that gaetz was privately asking the white house for a blanket preemptive pardon for any crimes they may have committed. that s important. we ll come back to that clause because it is quite telling. now, trump s white house lawyers denied the pardon according to the times because they were concerned about the precedent. we also know as a public matter he wasn t federally pardoned. did gaetz know when he was under investigation? the times notes only he didn t tell the white house according to their reporting that he may have been facing a doj sex crime probe. he did know already by that point that his associate joel greenberg was in trouble, indicted in august of last year for sex trafficking