Video of George Floyd’s last say shown

ST. PAUL, MINN. » Prosecutors at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights played videos Tuesday that showed the Black man gasping for air as bystanders warned that fellow Officer Derek Chauvin was killing him.

Footage shown at the trial of former officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao was from police body cameras, street surveillance video and widely viewed bystander video that also was played extensively in the state criminal trial that eventually convicted Chauvin of murder last year. It shows Floyd struggling with officers as they try to put him in a police vehicle, the officers holding him on the ground and eventually putting him into an ambulance, and a growing group of onlookers become increasingly frantic as Floyd stops moving.

Police had responded to a 911 call that Floyd tried to use a counterfeit $20 bill to buy a pack of cigarettes at a corner store on May 25, 2020.