As they bring Floyd to the squad, you can hear Floyd say "I am claustrophobic for real, Mr. Officer", tell them he's scared. One of the officers offers to crack a window.
You can very clearly hear the bystanders ask the officers to check Floyd's pulse over and over again in the video.
As #GeorgeFloyd is loaded into the ambulance, the video is paused.
Schleicher moves on to the body worn camera footage of former officer Kueng, which we are now seeing.
When they approach the vehicle, Kueng goes around to the passenger side.
We can see Kueng speaking to Floyd on the sidewalk. Floyd is handcuffed.
Lane and Kueng then walk Floyd across the street to the squad.
At the squad we hear the officers tell Floyd to get into the vehicle. From Kueng's camera, you can see Lane go around to the other side, appearing to pull Floyd into the squad.
This is the angle from Kueng's camera once Floyd is on the ground. We can hear Floyd say he is claustrophobic, "I can't breathe" and "everything hurts".
We can also hear an officer raising concerns about drugs, an officer can also be heard telling Floyd to relax.
For the last 40 minutes, we've been seeing footage from these two body worn cameras.
We can hear the voices of Donald Williams and Minneapolis Firefighter Genevieve Hansen in the background, both testified yesterday. Williams' testimony started on Monday.
Schleicher pauses the video.
We are now about to see the video from former officer Tou Thao's body worn camera.
From this video, we can see Thao approach the scene and the attempts to get Floyd into the squad.
From Thao's video, we can see Chauvin had Floyd in some kind of hold at the squad.
We can see Thao go through the back of the squad and then it appears he hands something to Lane.
From Thao's body camera, you can see the position of the officers and the crowd.
Williams and Hansen can be seen addressing Thao and Chauvin, telling officers to check for a pulse.
Schleicher stops playing the video shortly after.
Schleicher now has Chauvin's body camera footage played-
That footage paused before Chauvin gets out of the squad.
Schleicher is now submitting photographs from each of the former officers' body worn cameras.
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Lt. Rugel, "As of now every sworn employee has a body worn camera", says his department is the primary point of contact for their BWC vendor.
Schleicher asks for summary of BWC policy
Lt. Rugel, "It requires officers working in uniform, always wear their body worn camera. That they have it on in a standby mode whenever they're working and that they activate and record video when they're responding to a call..."
Lt. Rugel is explaining how cameras are linked to officers and case.
Lt. Rugel says, "Depending on the type of video, the minimum retention is a year", for any evidence it's 7 years, for significant incidents it could be kept indefinitely.
McMillian describes seeing the former officers bringing Floyd over to the squad outside of Cup Foods.
Eldridge, "Was he still handcuffed at that point?"
McMillian, "Yes Ma'am"
We're seeing surveillance/body camera video now which shows McMillian, wearing black shirt, talking to Floyd as officers tried to get him in the vehicle.
McMillain can be heard telling Floyd "You can't win".
He explains to Eldridge, "Because I have had interactions with officers myself and I understand ... you can't win."
Next witness is Christopher Belfrey, who says he’s lived in south Minneapolis for about 3 years.
He went to Cup Foods on May 25, 2020.
Belfrey parked behind an SUV across the street from the Cup Foods.
Frank, “Did you see something that drew your attention?”
Belfrey, “Two officers were coming across the street.. they approached the vehicle in front of me”, describes officer drawing handgun, “it startled me”.
Belfrey says “I didn’t know exactly what was going on” so he moved his car across the street.
We are about to see video he filmed before moving his vehicle.
The next witness, Christopher Martin says he was about two months on the job at Cup Foods on May 25 2020. Martin explains it’s a busy store.
Martin says he noticed #GeorgeFloyd when he came in the store because he was so tall.
He describes asking Floyd if he played baseball and Floyd responded he played football. He says Floyd responded slowly so Martin thought Floyd seemed under the influence.