The video of the body camera of former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was released Thursday by Hennepin County Court. Thao was seen in earlier videos of the incident that went through when three other officers stopped Floyd after he was accused of trying to pass a $ 20 counterfeit bill at a convenience store in Minneapolis on May 25.
The recordings are just the latest to show the fatal encounter, which, along with Floyd’s death, sparked widespread protests and a renewed national account of race and police work. Earlier this week, two other videos of cameras of police bodies carried by officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng were released showing the fight between Floyd and the officers.
In the new 22-minute video, bystanders are seen and heard begging police to go out as Floyd as Officer Derek Chauvin kneels on his neck. But Thao dismisses her worries, telling her that Floyd is okay.
Chauvin, a White Officer, nodded for almost 8 minutes around Floyd’s neck, even when Floyd repeatedly shouted, “I can’t breathe.” Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree assault.
The three other officers involved in Floyd’s death – Thao, Lane and Kueng – are accused of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
None of the officers has filed a lawsuit in the case, though attorneys for Thao and Lane have requested that their cases be dismissed, and Kueng intends to plead guilty, according to his attorney.
Police officers for Chauvin and Kueng declined to comment when asked about the new images. CNN has also contacted lawyers for Thao and Lane for comment and is awaiting answers.
What the video shows
The filming begins as Thao and Chauvin approach the scene, where Kueng and Lane try to get a handcuffed Floyd in the back of a patrol car.
Thao sees the other three officers wrestling with Floyd, who is audible and visibly sad. Chauvin reveals his arm to have Floyd’s neck. Nowadays, Floyd can hear screams that he cannot breathe several times.
“This is why you do not do drugs, children,” says Thao.
“He talks, so he’s fine,” Thao tells the crowd, adding later, “it’s hard to talk when you’re not breathing.”
One assistant, a Black man named Donald Williams, finds that Floyd is not well. “Bro, he’s not even a f ** king moving right now, bro.”
A woman arrives, says she’s a firefighter and asks Thao if Floyd has a pulse. Thao calls out to her to “go back” and get on the sidewalk.
The bystanders are constantly overwhelmed after Floyd stops talking and moving, pleading with the officers to check on a pulse. More people began to gather on the sidewalk, until about a dozen people witnessed the arrest.
“What do you do?” says one woman. “He’s dying.”
The back-and-forth between Thao and the audience remained – at times physically as Thao shot bystanders on the sidewalk – until about 13 minutes into the recordings. At that point, Chauvin appears off the camera. Floyd is already loaded into an ambulance.
“You just really killed that man, bro,” Williams tells Chauvin.
Floyd was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at the scene.
CNN’s Brad Parks and Eliott McLaughlin contributed to this report.
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