A new record revealed that George Floyd, an African American, said more than twenty times that he could not breathe and repeated the names of his children and his mother, asking them from the grip of the police, before his death during his arrest.
Floyd, 46, died during his arrest by the police in the city of Minneapolis on May 25, sparking a wave of widespread protests in the United States and the world.
An autopsy showed that pressure on Floyd's chest caused death, but police records submitted by Thomas Lane - one of the elements involved in the accident - to the Minnesota State Court, revealed new details of his last moments.
The text, taken from a clip recorded by the camera attached to the body of the policeman, was shown during the incident which took nearly nine minutes. The policeman remained crouched on his neck before he died.
When the police arrested him first, Floyd pleaded with them not to put him in the police car and tell them that he was suffering from the fear of the indoor places and his physical weakness, and while they were trying to make him ride the car, Floyd said that he could not breathe and that he would "die here".
According to the recording, he later said, "Mom, I love you. Tell my kids that I love them. I'm dead," and he said, "I can't breathe" more than 20 times. The policemen can be heard asking him to "relax" and tell him that he was "doing well".
Floyd also said, "My stomach hurts. My neck hurts and everything hurts. I need some water or something. Please. Please? I can't breathe, officer."
And at certain moments when Floyd insisted he was breathing, policeman Derek Schofen shouted, "Stop talking ... stop screaming ... It takes a lot of oxygen to talk." His last words were: "They will kill me. They will kill me. I cannot breathe."
Chuvin was arrested by the authorities on May 29, four days after Floyd's death. He said he was not guilty of the charge of second-degree murder and manslaughter.
Three other officers were charged with participating in the crime, and the authorities removed the four officers from their positions in the Minneapolis Police.