MINNEAPOLIS — A key prosecution witness in the Derek Chauvin murder trial choked his former girlfriend outside the State Fair and then threatened to kill the police officers who arrested him, according to charges.
Donald Wynn Williams, 34, of Minneapolis, explained to police Saturday that he was angry about being arrested and copes with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from testifying during the trial of Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted last year of murdering George Floyd, according to the criminal complaint.
Williams was a witness at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, and was among the most vocal of them in urging Chauvin to get off Floyd's neck and officer Tou Thao to intervene.
