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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Prosecution witnesses say they feared for Floyd's life

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Prosecutors at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd s civil rights are trying to show that even bystanders knew the Black man needed help, while the officers failed to act as former Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck.

Footage shown to jurors at the trial of J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao showed Floyd struggling with officers as they try to put him in a police vehicle, officers holding the handcuffed man facedown on the ground and Floyd gasping for air as a growing group of onlookers warned that Chauvin was killing him.

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