George Floyd

In order to provide with the best experience possible we might sometimes track information about you. Sometimes this may involve writing a cookie. We use this information for things like experience enrichment, analytics and targeting advertising. We recommend allowing these functions to get the most out of your experience. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Essential CookiesThese cookies are necessary to provide you with basic services and features available through our websites, such as remembering where you are in the website. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

AdvertisingThese cookies are used to enhance your experience and make advertising messages more relevant to you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Social MediaThese cookies are used to enable sharing or following of content that you find interesting on our websites. These settings apply to third party social networking and other websites. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Performance and FunctionalityThese cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our websites. They provide statistics on how our website is used and helps us improve by measuring errors. Certain functionality on our website may become unavailable without these cookies. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

AnalyticsThese cookies collect information that is used in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are used, and also helps us to continuously improve the experience we provide to you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CancelSaveWe use cookies to give you the best possible experience. about how we use cookies or X George Floyd: Family says four officers involved in his death ...

George Floyd: Family says four officers involved in his death ...

By continuing to browse our site you agree to our use of , and . More information about I agree By Christina Maxouris, CNN

Updated 1452 GMT (2252 HKT) May 27, 2020

MUST WATCH

Family of black man who died in police custody demands justice 02:53 (CNN)The family of George Floyd -- -- say they want the four Minneapolis officers involved charged with murder.

"They were supposed to be there to serve and to protect and I didn't see a single one of them lift a finger to do anything to help while he was begging for his life. Not one of them tried to do anything to help him," Tera Brown, Floyd's cousin, told CNN's Don Lemon. In an emotional interview Tuesday night, Brown and Floyd's two brothers held up his picture and spoke of a man who "didn't hurt anybody" and who they described as a "gentle giant.""Knowing my brother is to love my brother," Philonise Floyd said. "They could have tased him; they could have maced him. Instead, they put their knee in his neck and just sat on him and then carried on.""They treated him worse than they treat animals," he said.Read MoreFour officers involved were fired Tuesday, the police department said, and state and federal authorities are investigating the case.Minneapolis police said officers were responding to an alleged forgery Monday evening and were told a person later described as the suspect was sitting on a car. They found Floyd, who at that point was inside a car and police said he "physically resisted" after he got out. Officers handcuffed Floyd, who police said "appeared to be suffering medical distress." He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. Video captured by bystanders at the scene of the arrest shows an officer with his knee pressed against the neck of the 46-year-old, who was handcuffed on the pavement, complaining that his body hurt and he couldn't breathe. Two officers handled the man on the ground while another stood nearby with his eyes on the bystanders as traffic passed.Surveillance video obtained from a nearby restaurant showed the first point of contact police had with the man. An officer escorts a handcuffed Floyd out of a car and Floyd sits on the sidewalk. Moments later, the officer and another escort Floyd away, still with his hands behind his back. George's brother Rodney Floyd told CBS that he didn't believe George was resisting arrest."You have eyes. I have eyes. You can see what you saw," Rodney Floyd said in an interview that "CBS This Morning" aired Wednesday. "And I saw, and the nation saw ... and every black person saw, the same thing, because it don't happen to nobody else."The Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis said in a statement the officers were cooperating in the investigation and urged "now is not the time to rush to (judgment)" while the officers' actions are examined. "They need to be charged with murder because what they did was murder," Brown told CNN. "And almost the whole world has witnessed that because somebody was gracious enough to record it."George Floyd's sister Bridgett Floyd told ABC on Wednesday that she also wants the officers arrested.The officers' firings are "definitely not enough justice for me and my family," she told "Good Morning America." I feel those guys need to be put in jail. They murdered my brother."A day after George Floyd's death, hundreds gathered at the same intersection where Floyd was pinned to the ground and later marched to a police precinct to protest his death. The "No justice, no peace," and "I can't breathe."Some demonstrators wheeled a shopping cart full of rocks just outside the precinct and dumped it on the ground for people to throw, a CNN team there reported. Police sprayed tear gas to disperse the crowd after some people turned unruly, a spokesman for the police department said. 'I can't breathe' Video of Floyd's encounter with police that has circulated on social media shows one police officer with his knee on Floyd to keep him on the ground. "Please, I can't breathe," the man says, protesting for several minutes before he becomes silent. Bystanders urge the officer to release the man from his hold.The technique is against department regulations, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Tuesday, and the officer had no reasons to employ it. "The technique that was used is not permitted; is not a technique that our officers get trained in on," he said. "And our chief has been very clear on that piece. There is no reason to apply that kind of pressure with a knee to someone's neck."In the video, the police officer's leg remains on Floyd for several minutes, even as the man is pleading for help."My stomach hurts," Floyd can be heard telling the officer. "My neck hurts. Everything hurts."At one point the man said, "Give me some water or something. Please. Please."By the end of the video, Floyd is seen motionless, with his eyes shut, laying on the pavement. The " while in a New York officer's chokehold. Since Garner's death, the phrase has become a rallying cry throughout the Black Lives Matter movement. That officer never faced charges. He was fired in 2019 after being found guilty in a disciplinary trial of using a chokehold on Garner and . Floyd's cause and manner of death remains pending and is being investigated by local, state and federal law enforcement, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said in a statement.Frey offered his condolences to Floyd's family Tuesday, adding that what the video shows was "utterly messed up.""For five minutes, we watched as a white officer pressed his knee to the neck of a black man," Frey said in a news conference."When you hear someone calling for help, you are supposed to help. This officer failed in the most basic human sense. What happened on Chicago and 38th this last night is simply awful. It was traumatic and it serves as a clear reminder of just how far we have to go.""Being black in America," he added, should not be "a death sentence."FBI is investigating The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into Floyd's death, which will focus on whether the Minneapolis Police Department officers involved "willfully deprived (Floyd) of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States," according to a statement from the FBI Minneapolis Division. The FBI said it will present its findings to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota for consideration of possible federal charges. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is conducting its own investigation into possible violations of Minnesota statutes, the FBI said.US Sen. Amy Klobuchar, of Minnesota, told CNN's Chris Cuomo after the incident, "to me this evidence is just crying out for some kind of a charge.""I know that officers, including in my state, look at that (incident) and they think that is wrong. That cannot happen. And that kind of message has got to be sent to the African American community, from the law enforcement community."CNN's Omar Jimenez, Brad Parks, Gregory Lemos, Josh Campbell, Kevin Bohn, Ray Sanchez, Joe Sutton, Chris Boyette and Artemis Moshtaghian contributed to this report.

Quantcast [//pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-D1yc5zQgjmqr5.gif?labels=noscript%3ANo%20Labels%20Set]Privacy Settings Your Privacy Your Privacy When you visit our website, we may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalised web experience. You can choose not to allow some types of cookies. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings. However, if you disable the use of cookies in your browser, it may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.

Consent Leg.Interest Select All Vendors Select All Vendors Select All HostsSelect All

Information storage and accessApplySave Preferences Accept allChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. The fatal arrest of George Floyd, a black man kneed in the neck by ...

The fatal arrest of George Floyd, a black man kneed in the neck by ...

One Of The Officers Identified As Derek ChauvinMay 26, 2020 at 11:30 pmFiled Under:, , , , MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — An FBI investigation is underway and four officers have been fired following a fatal encounter Monday between Minneapolis police and an unarmed 46-year-old black man named George Floyd.

According to Minneapolis police, the encounter between Floyd and officers happened just after 8 p.m. Monday, when police were called to the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue South on a report of a man attempting to use forged documents at Cup Foods. WCCO asked a store manager about the police call, but they declined to comment.

Officers found Floyd in a car at the scene. He appeared intoxicated, police say. Officers ordered him to get out of the car.

“After he got out, he physically resisted officers,” police spokesman John Elder told reporters early Tuesday. “Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and officers noticed that the man was going into medical distress.”

An ambulance brought Floyd to Hennepin Healthcare, where he later died, police say.

RELATED:

Overnight, video of the attempted arrest circulated on social media. the nine-minute video shows a white officer pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck behind a squad car. While lying facedown on the road, Floyd repeatedly groans and says he can’t breathe.

“He’s not even resisting arrest right now, bro,” one bystander tells the white officer and his partner, in the video. “You’re f—ing stopping his breathing right now, you think that’s cool?”

After about five minutes, Floyd stops moving and appears unconscious. People in the gathering crowd plead for the officers to check Floyd’s pulse. The officer on Floyd’s neck does not lift his knee until medical personnel arrive and carry him to an ambulance.

RELATED:

Charles McMillan says he saw it all happen.

“There’s a black man who died and it could have been prevented, because all he had to do was get his feet off his neck,” McMillan said.

Another witness, 9-year-old Judeah Reynolds, spoke to WCCO with her mother present, Diva Reynolds.

“All the adults kept saying, ‘Get off him,'” Judeah Reynolds said.

“They came and woke me up, and the only thing my daughter could tell me is, ‘Mom, they had his knee on his neck and they killed him,'” Diva Reynolds said.

CBS News acquired video of Floyd’s initial arrest, which seems to contradict the claim that he resisted arrested, at least in the early stages of their encounter.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, tweeted his reaction to Floyd’s death Tuesday night.

Leaders in Minnesota are calling for the officers involved to be held accountable. Rep. Ilhan Omar, who represents Minneapolis, called for the Department of Justice to investigate immediately.

“It is sickening to watch this black man be killed while helplessly begging for help,” she said in a statement.

Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan also reacted to the incident, calling the video “disturbing” and demanding justice.

“The lack of humanity in this disturbing video is sickening. We will get answers and seek justice,” Walz said.

RELATED:

At a Tuesday morning press conference, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey spoke bluntly about the graphic video, which has circulated widely online.

“Being black in America should not be a death sentence,” Frey said. “What we saw is horrible, completely and utterly messed up.”

Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Floyd’s family, says the officers’ unjust use of force over a non-violent charge cost Floyd his life. He released this statement to the media Tuesday evening:

Firing these officers was a good first step on the road to justice for George Floyd, but we need to make sure that the Mayor and the Police Chief fix the policies and training deficiencies that permitted this unlawful killing to occur. For four police officers to inflict this kind of unnecessary, lethal force – or watch it happen – despite outcry from witnesses who were recording the violence – demonstrates a breakdown in training and police by the City.

Today, George Floyd’s family is having to explain to his children why their father was executed by police on video. It’s essential that the City closely examines and changes its policing policies and training procedures to correct for the lack of proper field supervision; the use of appropriate, non-lethal restraint techniques; the ability to recognize medical signs associated with the restriction of airflow, and the legal duty to seek emergency medical care and stop a civil rights violation.

On Tuesday afternoon, the office of lawyer Tom Kelly confirmed they were representing one of the officers involved in the case, and confirmed his identity as Derek Chauvin. The identities of the other officers involved have not been released.

At the Tuesday morning press conference alongside the mayor, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo — who fired the four officers involved — did not address the video specifically, but did say that he received information from the community that prompted him to reach out to the FBI. The investigation is now being led by federal authorities with help from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Officials from the FBI’s Minneapolis division released a statement Tuesday afternoon, saying in part the “investigation will focus on whether the Minneapolis Police Department officers involved willfully deprived the individual of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

(credit: Darnella Frazier)

Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, said that the union intends to provide full support to the officers.

“Now is not the time rush to judgement and immediately condemn our officers,” Kroll said. “An in-depth investigation is underway. Our officers are fully cooperating. We must review all video. We must wait for the medical examiner’s report.”

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office released a preliminary report early Tuesday evening, which just lists Floyd’s name, age, city of residence, and his time of death, which was Monday at 9:25 p.m.

Protesters began gathering at the scene of Floyd’s encounter with police Tuesday afternoon, with , which is about two miles north of the scene.

PHOTO GALLERY:

(credit: CBS)

Police in riot gear started making a barrier around the precinct at about 7:30 p.m. as protesters began to swarm. One video shows some protesters sitting on the ground, while officers deployed smoke bombs or tear gas and flash grenades. Other videos show protesters smashing squad cars, precinct windows, and throwing bricks and rocks. The protest carried on into the late night.

Floyd’s death is reminiscent of the death of another unarmed black man, Eric Garner. In 2014, he died after a New York City police officer placed him in a choke hold during an attempted arrest over selling single cigarettes.

Bystander video of the incident showed Garner telling officers, “I can’t breathe.” The phrase quickly became a rallying cry during the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and national protests over police use of force.

The officer who placed Garner in the choke hold was fired but not charged.

You must to post a comment.

360p 720p HD 1080p HD Auto (360p) About Connatix V17580 About Connatix V17580 UndoUndoUndoUndoUndoUndoUndoUndoUndo Follow Us Our | Newsletter Most Viewed Review and Manage Your Script Settings This page provides an overview of our use of scripts and similar technologies and how to manage them. For more information please visit our and our .

When you visit our properties and use our products and services, we use scripts and similar technologies to analyse and measure our performance, customize content and serve personalized advertisements. We allow certain service providers to place their own scripts on your device and collect information such as your device ID, browser type and IP address so they can help us better understand your interaction with our properties. Advertisers and other advertising technology partners may also use their own scripts to collect information about your visits, deliver advertisements tailored to your interests, keep track of the number of views of a specific advertisement, analyses the effectiveness of advertisements, or provide auditing, research and reporting for advertisers. Such third parties may also match you to an existing interest category (e.g. automobiles) that they’ve developed and provide you with more relevant advertising over time and across different websites.

When you click on save settings, your preferences will be saved. You can change your settings at any time by using the consent module. Note saving settings is linked to the particular browser and/or device you use to visit our property. Saving your settings within one particular property will not affect your choices on other CBS properties or if you visit this property with another device or from a different browser. In addition, it won’t affect any of your activities on third party properties. You have other choices to manage scripts and other tracking technologies on the internet such as using industry choice programs or managing your preferences within your browsers or devices. For more Information refer to our Accept All Manage Consent Preferences Necessary Always ActiveThese scripts are essential for the proper functioning of our properties. In addition, we use the Google and Tealium Tag Managers. Essential scripts cannot be switched off in our systems. You can set your browser or device to block or alert you about these scripts, but some parts of the site will not work.

Analytic & Performance Always ActiveThese scripts allow us to collect information about how visitors use our properties. Some examples include counting visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. If you do not allow these scripts we will not know when users have visited our properties and will not be able to monitor performance.

Functional Always ActiveThese scripts enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these scripts then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Marketing Always ActiveThese scripts may be set by us or through our property by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other properties. If you do not allow these scripts, you will still see ads, but you will experience less relevant advertising.

Social Media Always ActiveThese scripts are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites, building up a profile of your interests to show you relevant content and adverts on properties. If you do not allow these scripts you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.

Confirm My Choices Performance Cookies Vendor Search Search Icon Information storage and accessApplyConsent Leg.InterestAll Consent Allowed

Select All Vendors Select All Vendors Select All Hosts Confirm My Choices

All Articles

George Floyd

More articles: