Teen who filmed Floyd under knee weeps as she sees pictures in court
THE teenager who filmed a harrowing video of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer accused of his murder said she began recording because ‘it wasn’t right, he was suffering, he was in pain’.
Darnella Frazier, 18, said she was walking with her younger cousin and ushered her out of the way because she did not want her to see ‘a man terrified, scared, begging for his life’.
Ms Frazier (pictured) began crying as she viewed pictures in court of white officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, last May. His death and the video prompted protests around the world.
A witness told the trial he called 911 after paramedics took Mr Floyd away ‘because I believed I witnessed a murder’.
Prosecutors played back Mr Williams’s emergency call, on which he is heard identifying Chauvin by his badge number and yelling at the officers at the scene: ‘Y’all is murderers, bro!’ During cross-examination, Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson sought to show that officers found themselves in an increasingly tense situation, with the crowd of onlookers getting agitated over Mr Floyd’s treatment.
He said Mr Williams seemed to become increasingly angry and taunted Chauvin with expletives. Mr Williams admitted he was getting angrier but backtracked and said he was controlled and professional and pleading for Mr Floyd’s life but was not being heard. Chauvin, 45, denies charges of murder and manslaughter. The trial continues.