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29 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
LIVE: The trial of Derek Chauvin begins with opening arguments pscp.tv/w/czCDRTF4a2pE…
Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin squeezed the life out of George Floyd when he arrested him last May, a prosecutor tells jurors in his opening statement at Chauvin's murder trial reuters.com/article/us-usa…
‘You will learn that on May 25, Mr. Derek Chauvin betrayed this badge when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the body of George Floyd,’ Jerry Blackwell, prosecutor with the Minnesota attorney general’s office, said during the trial. Watch live pscp.tv/w/czCDRTF4a2pE…
‘I first asked if the screen had frozen.’

Jena Scurry, a 911 dispatcher, called a supervising police sergeant when she saw Derek Chauvin still had George Floyd to the ground after a period of time reut.rs/3lZYI7U
Chauvin has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, with his lawyers arguing the main cause of Floyd’s death, ruled a homicide caused by police restraints by a county examiner, was a drug overdose pscp.tv/w/1nAKELRRqgyxL
“The most important numbers you will hear in this trial are nine-two-nine": Key quotes from the opening statements of Derek Chauvin's murder trial reuters.com/article/idUSKB…

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