the defense also played never before seen body cam video of george floyd s lifeless body being placed on a gurney and we ll play now parts of the paramedic s testimony for you right here. when mr. smith was bending down over the over mr. floyd, was that the point in time when he was checking for a pulse that you described? yes. and you may have been out of the frame for that, but were you what were you doing while that was going on? i was at the back of the ambulance yeah, i was standing near the back of the ambulance. and while your partner was checking for a pulse, and were the officers still on top of george floyd while that process was going on? yeah. oh, he in handcuffs, bro. he a real man, bro. i trained with him. the fact that you guys aren t checking his pulse and doing compressions if he needs them, you guys are on oh my god. okay. they just dragged him. come on now. you were seen bending down over mr. floyd and there was a gesture m
him the device was doing compressions at the time. you saw at some point the possibility of pulsice electrical activity, right? yes, we would pause to do a pulse check and it looked like a rhythm change and i was able to de defib that. just to be clear, i mean, when somebody is in the state that you are describing, are you looking for any opportunity to, you know, administer a shock or provide additional treatment that you might be able to? yes, he s a human being and i was trying to give him a second chance at life. ultimately were you able to generate a pulse or any positive change from that shock that was administered? sorry, could you repeat that, please. did anything change after that shock? did anything get better with mr. floyd? no. ultimately, when you arrived at the hospital, what did you do at that point? when we got to the hospital we provided a report to the staff with the information i had and the treatments rendered. what was mr. floyd