The footage, about an hour long, comes from the body cameras of former officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, who were the first to respond to a store where Floyd was accused of passing on a fake $ 20 bill.
About 36 seconds after talking to a store employee, officers are outside the car that Floyd was driving. Lane trains his gun on Floyd and tells him, “Put your f ** king hands on it!” Floyd pleads with officers, sobbing, at one point he puts his head on the steering wheel.
About three minutes into the video, officers forcibly pull Floyd out of the car and handle him. Another fight ensues when Lane and Kueng try to put Floyd in a police SUV.
Kueng tries to push Floyd through a back door of the SUV, while Lane pulls him away from the opposite door. Floyd screams out loud and says, “I can’t breathe” for the first time during the meeting.
Roughly 11 minutes and 23 seconds into Lane’s body camera video, Chauvin places his knee on Floyd’s neck. He’s been handcuffed for about eight minutes now.
About 16 minutes after the footage, Floyd utters his last words: “Man, I can not breathe.” Paramedics arrive about nine minutes after Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s neck. A minute later he is swallowed and paramedics load him onto a gurney.
The Minneapolis Police Department said earlier that it did not release the footage because it was part of an investigation into officers’ response.
Lane’s attorney filed the recordings in court last month as evidence of a motion to dismiss the charges against his client. Only transcripts of the tape were made public. Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill then let the media watch it.
Chauvin’s lawyer declined to comment when CNN saw the images in July. Lawyers for Thao and Kueng have repeatedly denied requests for comment.
Lane’s lawyer, Earl Gray, says Lane twice asked if Floyd should be moved to his side, but Chauvin, a veteran, told Lane that Floyd was fine and kept him there until an ambulance arrived, according to a court motion.
Lane saw no “visible intentional damage”, felt Floyd’s restraint was justified and was unaware that Chauvin was committing a crime, the motion says.
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