{"id":9779,"date":"2020-07-09T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2020-07-09T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T08:17:09","slug":"george-floyd-said-officers-would-kill-him-in-new-recording-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/george-floyd-said-officers-would-kill-him-in-new-recording-transcript\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd Said Officers Would \u2018Kill\u2019 Him In New Recording Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

George Floyd said he couldn\u2019t breathe more than 20 times, called out for his children and late mother and said officers would \u201ckill\u201d him before he died in Minneapolis police custody, new evidence showed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Floyd, a black man, died on May 25 when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death has unleashed a massive wave of protests against systemic racism and police brutality in the United States and inspired demos across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video of his death went viral and showed Floyd shouting \u201cI can\u2019t breathe\u201d and calling for his mother as he suffocated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But transcripts of the police officers\u2019 body camera footage, filed Tuesday in Minnesota state court by Thomas Lane, one of the officers involved in Floyd\u2019s death, has revealed new details about his final moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the officers first arrested him, Floyd begged them not to put him in the police car, telling them he was claustrophobic and in physical distress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they tried to force him into the car, Floyd cried out that he couldn\u2019t breathe and was \u201cgoing to die in here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, according to the transcript, he said, \u201cMomma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I\u2019m dead.\u201d He called for his mother and children several more times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout his arrest, Floyd said \u201cI can\u2019t breathe\u201d more than 20 times. The officers can be heard telling him to \u201crelax,\u201d and that he was doing \u201cfine\u201d and \u201ctalking fine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point, as Floyd insisted they were going to kill him, officer Derek Chauvin shouted, \u201cThen stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 \u2018I can\u2019t breathe\u2019 \u2013
According to the transcript, Floyd\u2019s last words were, \u201cThey\u2019re going to kill me. They\u2019re going to kill me. I can\u2019t breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transcript was submitted Tuesday by Lane to have the charges that he aided and abetted in Floyd\u2019s murder thrown out by a judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He and the other three officers involved \u2014 Chauvin, Tou Thao and Alexander Kueng \u2014 were all fired from the Minneapolis police force one day after Floyd\u2019s death and charged in his murder. They each face up to 40 years behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chauvin, who knelt on the handcuffed 46-year-old\u2019s neck, faces second and third-degree murder charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thao and Kueng, like Lane, have been charged with aiding and abetting a murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bystander video of Floyd\u2019s death stunned and horrified Americans, igniting protests and riots in cities across the country and sparking a national debate on racism and police violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Floyd was detained for the minor charge of attempting to use a counterfeit $20 bill, and while in handcuffs, two of the officers held him down on the street while Chauvin pressed his knee to Floyd\u2019s neck and the fourth officer stood watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Floyd said he couldn\u2019t breathe more than 20 times, called out for his children and late mother and said officers would \u201ckill\u201d him before he died in Minneapolis police custody, new evidence showed. Floyd, a black man, died on May 25 when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Floyd-I.jpg?fit=760%2C425&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}