Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo will headline the case against a former officer accused of killing George Floyd, the prosecution said as the trial began Monday.
Prosecutors used their opening statement to cast former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin as an outlier who violated police protocols when he knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest in 2020. Chauvin’s trial isn’t about “all police or all policing,” attorney Jerry Blackwell said in opening remarks for the prosecution.
Chauvin “betrayed” the Minneapolis police “badge when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the ...
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