Transcripts of police body cameras show George Floyd said “I can’t breathe” over 20 times and include new details about what the police said to George Floyd. Aired on 7/8/2020.
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Officer will say “I feared for my life”
…how can ANYONE support this and say that the cop was in the right! Not only did he ignore pleading crys for help, he assumed that because he was black, he must be “dangerous” this dude seemed like you and me, a humble introvert…
@CJ J But placing your knee on someone’s neck as they beg for breath isn’t the proper protocol for resisting arrest though is it?
Those are the facts, which you casually and obliviously ignore.
They should have called an Ambulance, especially after hearing the covid explanation. But they ignored it and they’re all in jail. More facts.
@CJ J You acting a little erratic CJ J
LITERALLY NO ONE has said what happened is right
Because he was unable to breath before he was even on the ground.
@CJ J really… Dude just like… Go away… Read the room no one wants you here!
“My knee might be a little scratched, but I’ll survive”
THE NERVE!!!! I dont give a DAWG about your knee… YOU KILLED A MAN!!!!!
Chauvin is the one that killed him
@Stephen B. Smith
All 4 killed him.
You hang out with the guys that kills someone and see if you don’t get the same as the one who pulled the trigger.
Psychopath
And he wants his charges dismissed against him🤣🤣🤣
The dude was panicking really hard… Yeah cops really screwed up.
Committed murder
The dude was on crystal Meth and fentanyl just another day in his worthless life
@Carlos Stranger find life elsewhere
Carlos Stranger Victim blaming, really nice.
@Nobody From Nowhere Victim of his Violent life karma baby!!
Absolutely heartbreaking. These cops are disgusting. They’ll get theirs in prison.
@Graeme SYDNEY not sensitive at all oh, I feel like you’re just simply trying to play Devil’s Advocate and go argue with somebody else. Your line of reasoning I find boring. Times have changed and these officers will not be acquitted. If you look back when Rodney King’s trial had the riots it was overwhelmingly just black folks, that is not the case now. So I was polite by saying goodnight. Now f*** off
@Graeme SYDNEY you moron.
Go back to FOX.
@Kevin Either way, they won’t be in a happy place.
@N. deG No they won’t. The attorney general that didn’t originally charge them should be fired as well.
@Noemi Frederick wtf
Breaks my heart and makes me furious at the same time.
Same here. So sad.
VOTE
“Tell my kids I love them. I’m dead.”
I…just don’t even know what to say about that…Jesus Christ
VOTE IN HONOR OF GEORGE FLOYD. VOTE A STRAIGHT BLUE TICKET IN NOVEMBER.
I think he knew he was going to die that day.
@jade Undoubtedly. Its so incredibly sad
100 percent of the police present in that incident were bad cops . No empathy. No guilt .Psychopaths ! All of them present . And they all pretend they’re against what happened only when they’re caught on camera .
Noemi Frederick Yes, they where *very, very* bad people, but they all were definitely shocked and I think that Tommyboy 150 is right
Christopher Decena yeah and guess what, hired by liberals in a big blue city run by Democrats. Why are the crime rates soaring in Democrat run cities?
@Nick Allred You’re not thinking very clearly there are bad police officers everywhere. You can’t just say this is a liberal cities problem or liberal States problem. I’m sure if A minority were to get in trouble in a area where there is heavy belief in the Confederate flag that person would not be treated fairly. Hill Bay might not even be doing anything wrong and still the racially profiled do you think that they would be treated fairly . this is a problem police officers not being held accountable for anything. Honestly I think almost all entire police force in our country should be considered fired of as of right. now unless they can complete their testing again without study because.
, they should know how to do that thethey were trained on. so it would make sense for the people who are trained and prepared to keep their job otherwise you’re fired.
Nick Allred move along , Bro . You and me are not here to convert anybody . November is for everyone . Let it rip !!!
Tommyboy 150 from the transcript of their body cams, that lane dickhead ain’t no angel but nice try.
Officer Chauvin deserves every punishment US law can impose. What a reprehensible disgusting excuse for a human.
the 3 other officers deserve the harsher punishment… they supported the murder all the time during the murder…
@freejutube true bro
@freejutube The other officers were new to the job and Chauvin called them off. They deserve punishment, definitely, but Chauvin was clearly the leader and the senior officer.
@Reinhard
sounded like ol curious george was into auto erotic asphyxiation, “Oh man o yeah o mama oh oh oh” XDDD
Dude, US law meant to protect murders.
Officer Lane: “My knee might be a little scratched, but I’ll survive. But my rear end is going to catch he// in prison for what we’ve done.”
Pigs will sqeal!
I pray so.
😡😡😡
This is the most disturbing, disgusting thing l have ever heard. I am having difficulty believing such calm, vicious, atrocious things have been done by those whose duty is to protect and serve
Torture is too good for them.
He was a repeat offender who committed a crime then resisted arrest. They’ll say anything to get away. “The sky is falling”. Come on he brought it upon himself.
“my knee might be a little scratched, but ill survive.”
thats f*cked up.. they just killed a man and they worried about their own knees.. awful..
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Floyd deserved it. He was a repeat offender who committed a crime then resisted arrest. They’ll say anything to get away. “The sky is falling”. Come on he brought it upon himself.
Dont want to end up under a cops knee? Dont commit armed assault and dont go on regular meth benders.
Dude wtf are these replies rn… Wtf is wrong with these two people rn… He did not resist arrest he literally just wanted to breathe. Murderers get to live and survive and still roam about but all he was asking for was to breathe… Are you both high rn… Tf do you mean ‘he deserved it’… Ya’ll are just sick
Heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking. RIP George.
Are there any interviews with the people that were taking video of the whole thing? The spectators? Anyone know if there are any interviews with them recounting what happened right in front of their eyes? Is her name Darnella?
My guess is they will be called as witnesses and so are unable to give interviews.
I can’t even imagine how traumatized they must be, watching a man being tortured to death in broad daylight as he pleaded for air, said to tell his children that he loves them, and called out to his dead mother!
And while the bystanders pled the cops for mercy, and for his life to be spared! And all they could do was stand there and witness it- if any of the bystanders had tried to physically intervene, based on the cops’ wildly and brutally overreacting to the Floyd situation, even with all those witnesses and the people saying they were filming it, really, I can’t imagine that could have saved Mr. Floyd’s life. It would have been very likely to have killed, at the very least, the person who made the attempt. Chances are good that there would be more innocent casualties caused by these 4 “officers” in such an incident.
So those witnesses were utterly helpless and overwhelmed with desperation! And it all resulted in a slow, painful, tortured death of a very good man. Those witnesses definitely need plenty of support and prayers right now!!
Horrific. Angers me anytime someone tries to rationalize murder.
He went for the cops gun, mad m8? XD
His knees are gonna get more than a LITTLE scratched…in GEN-POP.
GEN-POP just got a new 4 carriage train… Choo choo
They won’t get gen-pop, although that would be amazing…
Did they ever explain to George why they were arresting him? Or read him his Miranda Rights? Did he even know WHY he was being taken to jail?
How fkn terrifying would that be.. You’re literally fully aware, dying, and unable to say or do anything to stop your long, slow 8 minute death.
Horrifying.
Yes, they did all that. And after, he fought being put in the back of a squad car. They were having to hog-tie him to get him in the back of that squad car. That is the point where the cop got his knee on his neck.
Welcome to the world of being Black in the Land Of The Free !
@CJ J the cop chokes him while handcuffed for 8 minutes…
When I was a kid, they called ’em pigs.
The irony when a pig is an innocent, intelligent animal.
George Floyd’s death is a tragedy. The greater tragedy is that his death will not be the last where a black life is extinguished by the brutality of police officers ignoring their training and reverting to illegal and life-threatening restraint techniques.
MatchstalkMan
George wasn’t killed because of technique though. He was killed because Chauvin is a sadist.
He was a repeat offender who committed a crime then resisted arrest. They’ll say anything to get away. “The sky is falling”. Come on he brought it upon himself.
Prior to the release of this transcript the two younger officers had an alibi that they were brand new on the force. But this transcript shows that they also displayed little to no concern for Floyd. Thao kept telling Floyd to relax, but said nothing to Chauvin to get HIM to relax.
Thau wasn’t a rookie and had a previous complaint against him for excessive force. I suspect he was terribly concerned with earning the approval of the primary murderer, Chauvin, to demonstrate that he was “one of the boys” like that pathetic wannabe Paul Tanaka, (2nd in command of LA Sheriffs, convicted of obstruction) who joined the cop gang The Vikings)(Yes folks, cops have their own gangs; read the L.A. TIMES investigation). Thau was evidently busy trying to push eye witnesses back. One of the other two rookies did keep questioning Chauvin about what he was doing. Hopefully that will prove that Chauvin was given repeated verbal cues to reconsider vs “I just panicked” and establish clear premeditation for a 1st degree murder conviction….if that sounds too optimistic, well, I can always dream can’t I?
Floyd: I can’t breath, I’m going to die!
Officer: my knee might be a little scratched but I’ll survive
GOD I am FURIOUS