Trial over George Floyd's killing: 'Mr. Derek Chauvin Betrayed This Badge'

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

The first day in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is accused of killing George Floyd in May, featured an intense series of opening arguments, numerous photographs and videos of the killing, and testimony from three witnesses.

Chauvin, who is white, is charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Floyd, a Black man. Video recordings show that Floyd was handcuffed and held facedown on the asphalt and that Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine and a half minutes.

"Mr. Derek Chauvin betrayed this badge", Special Assistant Attorney General Jerry Blackwell told the jury after outlining police policies and the oath that Chauvin took when he became an officer.

In his opening statement, Chauvin's defense attorney, Eric Nelson, told jurors, "The use of force is not attractive but it is a necessary component of policing".

Chauvin, he added, "did what he was trained to do".

"The evidence will show that Mr. Floyd died of a cardiac arrhythmia that occurred as a result of hypertension, his coronary disease, the ingestion of methamphetamine and fentanyl, and the adrenaline flowing through his body — all of which acted to further compromise an already compromised heart", Nelson said.

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Trial over George Floyd's killing: 'Mr. Derek Chauvin Betrayed This Badge'

Skip the formalities and convict already! The white male is guilty!