China News Service, April 1 reported that on March 31, former white American policeman Xiao Wan was charged with the murder of Floyd, an African-American man, and the trial continued in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The convenience store clerk who suspected that Freud paid the counterfeit bills and caused the store to call the police appeared in court to testify, and the police played part of the video of the incident in court.
[Convenience store cashier: Feeling guilty about the whole thing]
Christopher Martin, a 19-year-old convenience store cashier who testified in court that day, said that he felt guilty about the whole incident because his involvement led to Freud's eventual death at the knee of Xiaowan.
Martin testified that on May 25, 2020, Freud walked into the store and reacted very slowly to other people's words, as if taking drugs.
Surveillance video broadcast in the court showed Freud fiddling with things in his clothes pockets and casually interacting with other customers and shop assistants.
After that, Freud bought a pack of cigarettes with a $20 bill.
Due to the wrong color and texture of this banknote, Martin suspected that it was a counterfeit banknote, so he told the store manager, who urged Martin and other store clerk twice to retrieve Freud and enter the store to solve the problem.
After Freud refused to return, the store manager asked an employee to call the police-a decision that led to Freud's eventual death.
Martin said: "If I hadn't accepted this banknote at that time, this incident could have been avoided." He said that he soon stopped working in the convenience store because he felt unsafe.
[Criticized by onlookers, the former police said "must control him"]
Other videos broadcast that day showed that when Freud was taken away by medical staff, a bystander in his 60s recognized Xiao Wan and told him that he could not respect his actions.
"This is just a person's opinion," Xiao Wan responded in the video, "We must control this person. He is quite strong... and it seems that he might be taking drugs."
The police showed about 20 minutes of footage of the body-carried law enforcement recorder, from the time the police approached Freud's vehicle to when he was taken to an ambulance.
In the video, Freud repeatedly called for help and yelled "I can't breathe." The police said he did not follow the instructions and suspected that he might be taking drugs.
The defense stated that Xiao Wan completed the work for which he was trained, and Freud’s death was not caused by the “kneeling” of the police, but because of Freud’s illegal drug use, heart disease and high blood pressure. And adrenaline surge.
The prosecution charged Xiao Wan with three counts of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, with the maximum sentences of 40 years, 25 years, and 10 years respectively.
Xiao Wan has not pleaded guilty to any charges.
The analysis pointed out that although the Freud case has set off a wave of protests across the United States, few policemen have been accused of excessive law enforcement in American history, so it is more difficult to convict Xiao Wan.
According to statistics from Ohio State Bowling Green University, from 2005 to 2019, a total of 104 police officers were arrested and charged with murder or manslaughter for shooting while on duty, of which only 35 were convicted.
Indiana University Law School Professor Bell said that the jury is more inclined to believe the testimony of the police than the testimony of eyewitnesses.