MINNEAPOLIS — A teenage witness to the 2020 killing of George Floyd testified in federal court Friday that Floyd's distress was obvious to several bystanders as four officers arresting him ignored pleas to relent and render aid.
Alyssa Funari, now 19, testified that she "instantly" knew Floyd was in distress and that she warned the officers Floyd was near unconsciousness as former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes while two other officers pinned the rest of his body stomach-down in the street.
"Is he talking now?" Funari said in a clip of cellphone video played in court Thursday. "He's about to knock out."
