![]() At that point, the onlookers’ requests and concern became more insistent, more animated, and more urgent.Ī woman who identified herself as a current Minneapolis firefighter demanded that the officers check Mr. ![]() Suddenly, it appeared as though Floyd passed out. At first (and for the better part of over five minutes), they were simply pleading with the officers to recognize the medical distress from which Mr. The onlookers, while emotional, were not acting unreasonably or physically interfering with the officers. While this was taking place, another officer standing and facing the crowd, continuously advised the ever-increasing throng to “stand back.” Undeterred, he maintained his position, his knee still pressed on the neck of George Floyd. The crowd responded by pleading, almost in unison, for the officer to take his knee off the man’s neck. With a grimace on his face, he repeated “I can’t breathe” over and over again through gasps of air. Floyd was in pain and struggling-it was obvious to anyone watching. Floyd, whose head was turned to his right towards a growing group of outraged individuals. For well over seven minutes, the officer is seen kneeling on and crouched over Mr. It showed a police officer who had his left knee positioned squarely on the neck of George Floyd as the man laid face down and cuffed behind his back. ![]() I was watching the now infamously brutal cell phone video taken in Minneapolis. My wife heard me yell the unedited version of that sentence at least a dozen times the other night.
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