New video body camera footage and transcripts of George Floyd, who died on May 25 after Derek Chauvin, a White police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes has been revealed.
on Tuesday in Minnesota state court, one of the officers involved in George Floyd’s death went on to reveal new details about his final moments.
In the new body camera footage, When the officers arrested him, George Floyd begged them not to put him in the police car, telling them he was claustrophobic and in physical distress.
As they tried to force him into the car, Mr Floyd cried out that he couldn’t breathe and was “going to die in here”.
Later, according to the transcript, he said: “Momma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I’m dead.”
In the transcripts, throughout his arrest, George Floyd said “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times.
The officers can be heard telling him to “relax”, and that he was doing “fine” and “talking fine”.
At one point, as George Floyd insisted they were going to kill him, Derek Chauvin shouted: “Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.”
According to the transcript, Mr Floyd’s last words were: “They’re going to kill me. They’re going to kill me. I can’t breathe.”
The transcript was submitted on Tuesday by Thomas Lane to have the charges that he aided and abetted in Mr Floyd’s murder thrown out by a judge.
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