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Chauvin Trial Day 14 pt 1 pscp.tv/w/czHSmDFheVFW…

Motions discussing media policy with representatives from media organizations have started this morning

Witness Donald Williams has resumed testifying including covering his own 911 call after seeing what happened

Defense attorney Erik Nelson is now questioning witness Donald Williams pscp.tv/UR_Ninja/1LyxB…

Witness Donald Williams is explaining what choke holds, blood chokes, and other chokes while Nelson is questioning Williams about his training and how chokes are defined.

Williams referred to notes to look up the name of the FBI agents that questioned him for witnessing the death of George Floyd.

Nelson, who had asked Williams to put his notes away earlier, asked him this time to get permission from court to look at notes. Permission was granted.

Attorney for #DerekChauvin continues to try to get witness Williams to say he was angry, but Williams responds with he was "professional." Nelson seems to be attempting to show that Williams was a nuisance who made the officers' job hard on May 25, 2020.

Attorney for the state is questioning Williams now, asking him what happens if an opponent is rendered unconscious during one of his MMA fights. Williams says the fight stops right away and medical steps in.

Asst MN AG Frank asks Williams if he saw George Floyd resisting during his arrest (“No”) and if he saw Floyd lose consciousness (“correct”)

"I felt like I had to speak up for Floyd." Williams explains why he continued yelling at the officers when #DerekChauvin's knee was on Floyd's neck. Williams says the officers weren't listening to Floyd.

Judge Cahill just told Williams that he can't answer until the Judge says he can.

Judge Cahill just snapped at Williams "Stop!" when he was trying to answer a question from the State.

Williams is excused from the witness stand.

The next four witnesses will not be shown on the stream because of their age, according to Judge Cahill.

Another attorney for the State, Jerry Blackwell, is questioning the first young witness who just turned 18. She was walking by Cup Foods on May 25, 2020 with her younger cousin.

She says she walked to Cup Foods hundreds, maybe thousands of times. She felt safe doing so.

Blackwell submits exhibit 13 into evidence: a picture showing the witness and her younger cousin on the right, and a police SUV on the left.

Exhibit 16 is played. Witness breathes heavily. The video shows the two walking to Cup Foods in the background. In the foreground Floyd is on the ground and police officers are on top of him.

Witness walked her cousin into the store and walked back toward the police vehicle by herself and pulled out her phone. "I heard George Floyd saying 'I can't breathe.'" She heard Floyd call out for his mom. She says he was suffering.

Witness is sniffling, taking deep breaths when shown a picture of #DerekChauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck.

She says a minute later after she stood by the police vehicle, other bystanders joined her. Exhibit 184 is a picture of the bystanders, at least 10 people.

"We all knew it wasn't right." When describing what her and the other bystanders saw. That part of her answer was stricken.

Witness says she didn't see violence from the bystanders, but saw violence "from the cops, from Chauvin, from Officer Thao."

When Chauvin was kneeling on Floyd's neck, and two other officers were also holding him down, witness says Floyd said he was in pain, that his neck and back hurt, that he couldn't breathe.

One of the other bystanders said she was a firefighter and yelled at the officers to check Floyd's pulse. The witness says the officers didn't check his pulse.

Witness says Chauvin didn't let up on Floyd's neck at all, even as the bystander firefighter asked him to check his pulse.

Morning recess until 11:15 a.m. central time. To stay up-to-date on the trial, you can check out our website: unicornriot.ninja/derek-chauvin-…

Questioning continues with the young female witness. Blackwell is asking if she saw Floyd go unconscious when Chauvin was kneeling on his neck. She says "yes." She says she didn't see him conscious again after that.

Chauvin attorney Nelson is questioning now. He is asking her to confirm what she did when she got to Cup Foods.

Nelson is confirming that the witness and the other bystanders were speaking to the officers. The witness filmed the main video that went viral of Chauvin on Floyd. Nelson is also asking about other noises from traffic or other bystanders across the street.

The witness says when she was filming, she only saw Chauvin and Thao, she didn't notice or hear the two other officers.

Nelson asks the witness to agree if the noise got louder and the bystander group got larger as time went on on May 25, she agrees.

The witness confirms that Officer Thao told her that "you can breathe if you can talk."

The witness shares that she bottles things up and has social anxiety, but when she saw the scene on May 25, 2020, she was loud sometimes.

The witness gets emotional when Blackwell asks how May 25 affected her. She says she thinks of her dad and other family members who are also Black. She says she stays up at night saying sorry to George Floyd that she didn't do more to help him.

Witness is excused. The next young witness is approaching the witness stand.

The second witness is in 3rd grade and is 9 years old. She is the younger cousin of the previous witness.

Blackwell asks what she saw when she came out of Cup Foods. She says she saw Chauvin on top of George Floyd.

She says when the ambulance came, the medics asked Chauvin to get off of George Floyd. She says Chauvin didn't get off, so the medics had to pull him off.

Nelson passed for questioning, so the 9-year-old witness was excused.

Recess until 1:15 p.m. central time. Stay up-to-date on the trial, and revisit our coverage of the pre-trial here: unicornriot.ninja/derek-chauvin-…

Today in the designated seat for #GeorgeFloyd's family is his brother Terrence Floyd. No one is in the designated seat for #DerekChauvin family - same with the last 14 days.

During a presser after a pre-trial courtdate on Sept 11, Terrence said all he wants is accountability.

Court is back in session. The next youth witness is on the stand.

The witness is 18 and a senior in high school. She has lived in Minneapolis her whole life.

She says she drove to Cup Foods on May 25, 2020, and her friend was in the passenger seat. She was 17 at the time. When she pulled up she noticed a police car.

"Right before I walked in the door, I saw there were four police officers, and George was outside." She says she didn't know George Floyd's name at the time, but learned of it later.

"I knew initially something was wrong." She describes that other bystanders seemed in distress, and George Floyd also seemed in distress.

She saw Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck, and saw two other officers holding his lower half down. She says at first Floyd was vocal, but started talking less, and it seemed like it was harder for him to speak, spitting when he spoke.

The witness takes a few moments to breathe and blow her nose. She takes a deep breath and says it is difficult to talk about because she felt like there was nothing she could do. She felt like she was failing to help him, she couldn't do physically what she wanted to do.

She didn't see the three officers move from Floyd's body. She said they continued putting pressure on him until paramedics came. She noticed that Chauvin added more weight/pressure onto Floyd, he lifted his back leg up and his front knee down more into Floyd's neck.

The witness said the police officers didn't move and Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck even when paramedics were checking Floyd's pulse.

She shares how her and the other bystanders were on the curb together, and didn't get close to Floyd's body.

She shared that she knows Darnella, the other 18-year-old witness who testified earlier. They went to school together.

Exhibit 246 will be published and shown on the stream. It may contain violence and obscenities. There is currently a sidebar.

Video exhibit 246 is playing, showing Chauvin and the two other officers on top of George Floyd. The witness' phone video was shown to the right on the stream.

Content warning: You can see and hear George Floyd crying out as Derek Chauvin is kneeling on his neck, calling for his mom. Saying his neck, stomach, everything hurts.

The witness asked Chauvin "why are you kneeing him more?" during the May 25 phone video she took, which is being shown on the stream.

The video from the witness' phone shows Floyd's eyes closed and he is not moving and is quiet. Bystanders including the witness call out to the officers that he has not been moving for over a minute, and asking them to check his pulse.

"At that point I kinda knew that he was dead or not breathing." The witness expresses why she was upset and yelling in the video at about 8:27 p.m.

She says that the paramedics checked his eyes and pulse, didn't say anything, and put him on the gurney.

She says how she wanted to walk away because it was so hard to watch, but she didn't leave because what she was witnessing was wrong. She explains how she felt numb after. How it was a lot to take in. She hasn't returned to Cup Foods since that day.

Chauvin attorney Nelson is questioning the witness now.

Nelson asked if she remembers telling law enforcement and the prosecution that the officers on the scene on May 25 checked Floyd's pulse, she says she remembers saying they might have. Nelson approaches witness stand and shows a transcript to her.

Nelson has her read the transcript in her head, in the transcript it stated she told officers she saw the on-scene officers on May 25 check Floyd's pulse multiple times. Nelson also asked if her and the other bystanders were angry, and she says she was.

Re-direct back to the State, the attorney asks if reading the transcript jogged her memory, she said yes, and that she wasn't actually sure if they did check Floyd's pulse multiple times, but that there was movement from the two officers at his lower half.

She says she did not see Chauvin attempt at all to check Floyd's pulse, and if any of the officers did, it was either of the two on his lower half. She also says during and after the possible checks, the three officers remained on top of Floyd's body.

Witness was excused. There is now a short bathroom break.

Fourth youth witness is on the stand. Video of the witnesses will not be shown because they are minors or were minors on May 25.

The witness is 17-years-old and a senior in high school. She is the friend of the previous witness who arrived at Cup Foods via car.

As her and her friend were driving up to Cup Foods, they passed the squad car and heard George Floyd calling out for his mom. Her friend borrowed her phone to record the scene, and the witness stayed in the car.

She says she heard bystanders getting loud and she heard Floyd saying he couldn't breathe. As bystanders got louder, she got out of the car. "It was kind of like a gut feeling, it sounded serious."

When she got close to the group of bystanders, she says that Floyd was unconscious because he wasn't speaking anymore. She saw Chauvin digging his knee into Floyd's neck because of his foot movements.

She says she asked why Chauvin was still on top of Floyd. There was no response. She says that Officer Thao "was really hostile."

The witness says that while Chauvin was kneeling on Floyd's neck, he grabbed his mace and started shaking it at the bystanders. She says she was scared.

When the ambulance arrived on the scene, she says a paramedic motion to Chauvin to get up off of Floyd, and that was the first time she saw Chauvin get off of him. She says Floyd looked purple and that her gut-feeling was that he was dead.

She didn't see anyone before paramedics check for Floyd's pulse. The defense passed for questioning. The witness is stepping down from the stand.

10 minute break. The four youth witnesses are done testifying.

Back from break - the state is playing Exhibit 24 - another bystander view of the killing

Exhibits 24 and 25 are going to be played. Caution Advisory.

The cell phone video currently being played in court shows bystanders pleading with officers as George Floyd has become motionless dying on the ground. Officer Tou Thao moves to block the camera's view of Floyd.

The video shows an ambulance arriving and Floyd's motionless body being put onto a stretcher and taken away.

Genevieve Hansen is next on the stand. She is the bystander who is also a firefighter.

The State is questioning Hansen, asking her to explain her training. She went to Pathways Academy -- a 3-month program.

The test she had to take at the end of the program involved written parts and a hands-on portion. She passed and received a certification. She also has EMT certification meaning she can start any basic wound bandaging, CPR, assessing a patient.

Hansen explains what CPR is used for and why it's used. That it is to recover a heart beat.

She says that she has entered buildings that are on fire and she has pulled victims out of buildings, however the majority of her cases are medical calls, not fire calls.

Hansen says she has done CPR on people who don't have pulses and has assessed victims many times.

In an average 24-hr shift, she can respond to someone without a pulse anywhere from 1-5 times.

On May 25, 2020, Hansen was going for a walk and sat in a community garden for a while, and decided to go down a busy street to get home because it was getting dark. She was approaching Cup Foods, and saw red and blue lights.

She heard a woman yelling across the street from Cup Foods to the officers that they were killing someone, and so she asked the woman what was happening. Hansen then crossed the street closer to the squad car.

When asked why Hansen moved closer, she said: "I was concerned to see a handcuffed man who was not moving with officers with their whole body weight on his back and a crowd that was stressed out."

Exhibit 11 (a video) is being shown. It shows Hansen crossing the street toward the squad car, where she stops in the street. Officer Thao demands she get on the sidewalk, and she complies.

Hansen says she recognized Chauvin's face when she got closer to the scene. She didn't know him, but she had seen him at a recent call.

She says how it was concerning to see three officers on top of Floyd because that's a lot of weight. The first thing that concerned her was that his face was smushed into the ground and looked swollen.

Hansen said she thought his face looked puffy and swollen, which would happen if a lot of weight is on a neck. She saw fluid coming from Floyd's body, and she thought it could be urine. She has seen urine leaving patients' bodies when they die.

She recognized it was an issue right away because Chauvin seemed comfortable with a majority of his weight on Floyd's neck. She mentions how Chauvin also had his hands in his pocket. She says he wasn't distributing the weight elsewhere.

Hansen said there was no medical assistance on the scene, and she felt like she should have been allowed to help. She already decided his level of consciousness. If she was allowed to help, she would have had someone call for fire and an ambulance, etc.

She would have asked someone to find an AED, look in Floyd's airway, check his spine, check for a pulse, and do chest compressions if no pulse was found. Hansen begins to cry on the witness stand.

Hansen continues to sniffle as she answers more questions. She says once she noticed Floyd was unconscious, she pleaded with officers to check his pulse and get him medical care.

After the ambulance left with Floyd, Hansen stayed at the scene standing. The State attorney asked her what was going through her head. She said she didn't know, she was in disbelief.

Hansen states that "this human was denied that right" of medical care referring to George Floyd. She also referred to Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck as "killing."

A firetruck arrived on scene after the ambulance had already left. Hansen spoke with them. She thought this was weird because that type of poor communication isn't normal.

Defense attorney Nelson is questioning Hansen now.

He asks her to confirm she was not wearing a uniform on May 25, she confirms by saying she was off-duty. Nelson asks her about the stress of being a firefighter, if she has had training on the physical reaction to stress.

Nelson asks if Hansen knows about "tunnel vision." She says she has heard it and knows about it.

Nelson lays out a hypothetical to Hansen: You're outside of a burning building, you're spraying the water hose at the fire. You may notice a citizen filming what you're doing. Would that interfere with your job? Hansen said no.

Nelson asks if Hansen would be distracted if someone was yelling at her and telling her she was doing her job wrong. Hansen responded that she is confident at her job and confident in her training, and therefore no, it wouldn't distract her.

Nelson then asked if it is reasonable to assume that when Hansen arrived on the scene on May 25, that the police had already called medics. She said yes, but it was taking an abnormally long time.

Nelson asked Hansen if she knows what a "load-and-go" is. She says yes, that it is to move to a safe scene to begin medical work.

Nelson brings up how the firetruck got there after the ambulance left, Hansen mentioned again how that was abnormal.

Nelson asks Hansen about Narcan and about responding to overdoses. He asks if police are also called when responding to an overdose because when people come out of an overdose they can be combative, she said yes, but people are not always combative.

Nelson asks Hansen if she grew upset or angry as time went on on May 25, she said no, I felt desperate. He had her confirm that she called an officer "bitch." She said once Floyd was loaded in the ambulance she got angry because Floyd was already killed.

Nelson asks if other bystanders were yelling, which Hansen confirms. He then asks her to confirm that Chauvin looked comfortable when kneeling on Floyd's neck.

Nelson looks over the transcript of the conversation between Hansen and law enforcement agents after May 25. He asks Hansen to confirm or recall what she said during the conversation.

Judge Cahill asked the jury to leave the court room. Then told Hansen she can't argue with the court and can't argue with the counsel, and that she needs to answer the questions she is asked and not add additional details. She will be back on the stand tomorrow morning.

Judge Cahill is now scorning a woman who is with one of the youth witnesses. She took a picture on the 18th floor. Judge Cahill asked her to delete the picture from her phone. Court is done for the day.

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