New George Floyd Evidence Shows He Pleaded ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Over 20 Times | MSNBC

The newly released transcripts reveal more context about George Floyd’s death, taken directly from police body cameras. The new information highlights Floyd’s acute concern he would be killed by the police and his last words for his family. Attorney and MSNBC Analyst Maya Wiley joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss what this means for the case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 07/09/2020.
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New George Floyd Evidence Shows He Pleaded 'I Can't Breathe' Over 20 Times | MSNBC

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  1. If somebody said “I cannot breathe” once – I would do everything in my power to ensure that they could breathe. I thought the police have a duty of care. Obviously this is not the case with these police officers

    1. U.S police motto till proven otherwise: turn off body cam and proceed to escalate or create a problem.

    2. @watermelon detector Yes – They are gasping for breathe. Seriously the guy died so that is more than enough evidence

    3. “If somebody said ‘I cannot breathe’ once – I would do everything in my power to ensure that they could breathe”
      So you’re _that_ gullible, huh? Good thing you’re not a cop! I can hear you now:
      “Freeze! Police! Put your hands in the air!”
      Suspect: “I didn’t do anything.”
      You: “Oh! OK, you’re free to go.”

    4. @bricology I did not say that the guy should go free. But if you have a knee on his neck and he says he cannot breathe perhaps letting him breathe and stand up would be the right course of action. He did have handcuffs and four cops around him. He was not going far.

  2. WHAT A DIFFERENCE OUR WORLD WOULD BE IF JUST ONE OF THOSE VILE MURDERING, WATCHING COPS HAD SAID, “HEY, YOU’RE KILLING HIM…LAY OFF”???!!!

    1. JUST IMAGINE WHAT WONDERFUL THIS WORLD WOULD BE IF WE ALL LIVED LIFE LIKE GEORGE GUN-AT- PREGNANT-WOMAN FLOYD

    2. No kidding! I feel like the mental anguish can be focused into change but I wonder what the actual financial cost is?

  3. This really makes me sick to my stomach….I want the cop to read this out loud in court before he is sentenced

    1. JUST IMAGINE WHAT WONDERFUL THIS WORLD WOULD BE IF WE ALL LIVED LIFE LIKE GEORGE GUN-AT- PREGNANT-WOMAN FLOYD

    2. Agreed. That “police” should have to read EVERY WORD GEORGE FLOYD SAID FOR THE FULL 8 MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS.

    3. watermelon detector even if that were true, wich it isn’t, that justifies him being killed by police in this appalling manner? You serious?

    4. @Marlene Sollgruber i have 2 higher educations and work as doctor in Europe and i can tell U that gentle giant was HIGH and with drugs in his system. He resisted arrest

    5. watermelon detector maybe we saw different videos! When he was killed he was handcuffed and on the ground! And by the the way ,I’m not sure what you being a doctor has anything to do with this! But actually I’m a doctor in Europe too, have been for 30 years! 😂😂😂

    1. JUST IMAGINE WHAT WONDERFUL THIS WORLD WOULD BE IF WE ALL LIVED LIFE LIKE GEORGE GUN-AT- PREGNANT-WOMAN FLOYD

  4. That officer with his knee on Floyd’s neck knew what he was doing. He looked right at the camera as he strangled a man to death with his fellow officer’s watching him do it.
    I don’t want to hear that Floyd wasn’t a model citizen – the police here in the U.S. aren’t
    supposed to be executioners.

    1. @Heather Hent444 he was HIGH, he had meth and FENTANYL in his system. I have two higher education and work as a doctor. Yiu aint smart enough to tell me about the Reason of oxymortia of career criminal

  5. He needed to hear the bones crack in his next to believe him. Anything shy of that in his ears/eyes meant what he was doing was ok.

  6. No Empathy whatsoever from those law enforcement officers, to have the ability to understand and share the feeling for another.

  7. Maybe those ex-officers should stop breathing and see how it feels to be brought to the brink of death But don’t let them die. And see how fragile life really is!!!

  8. Chauvin enjoyed killing Floyd. He was not concerned in the slightest. All he had to do was take his knee off Floyd’s neck. He didn’t.

    1. JUST IMAGINE WHAT WONDERFUL THIS WORLD WOULD BE IF WE ALL LIVED LIFE LIKE GEORGE GUN-AT- PREGNANT-WOMAN FLOYD

    2. @watermelon detector HE WASN’T “HOLDING A GUN” WHEN HE WAS MURDERED BY COP, RACIST TROLL.

  9. What Camden, NJ did with their Police Department “reboot” should be the new model nationwide.

    1. JUST IMAGINE WHAT WONDERFUL THIS WORLD WOULD BE IF WE ALL LIVED LIFE LIKE GEORGE GUN-AT- PREGNANT-WOMAN FLOYD

  10. 🥺 it irritates me when people mock George Floyd with the I can’t breathe plee.

  11. Turns out the cops are Bigger Monster then we learned, and they are still trying to spin it!

    1. MSNBC covers how many times George Floyd said, “I can’t breathe.”
      MSNBC doesn’t cover the hundreds of black on black murders since June.

    2. @The Wraith Funny since we know you people only bring up those death to downplay the current situation and we know you really dont care tho 🤔🤔

  12. *“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” –  Martin Luther King JR., ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ (1963)*

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