The US "Floyd case" was held on the fifth day of the trial on April 2, local time. The jury heard the testimony of two Minneapolis police officers on the same day.
The head of the murder team of the Minneapolis Police Department, Richard Zimmerman (Richard Zimmerman), had reacted to the crime scene on the night of Freud’s death. He told the court that Constable Drake • Chauvin’s use of force against Freud was “completely unnecessary”.
Zimmermann said that when Freud was handcuffed and lying on the ground, Chauvin’s bondage to Freud “absolutely” should stop.
He stated that actions like Freud are not part of the police department’s training. “If your knee is resting on a person’s neck, it may kill him.”
Another police officer, Jon Curtis Edwards, who attended the trial, was on night duty at the Third Branch of the Minneapolis Police Department on the night of Freud's death.
Edwards described in court how he protected the crime scene and contacted J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, the only two police officers on the scene.
Edwards said that when he arrived, his body camera had been activated, but neither of the two police officers turned on the body camera. He asked both officers to turn on the camera.
(CCTV reporter Liu Xu)