Warning: This article contains graphic video footage.
A newly surfaced video of the deadly arrest of George Floyd shows two other Minneapolis police officers helping officer Derek Chauvin hold Floyd down on the ground.
“I can’t breathe, man,” Floyd cries out in the clip. “Please. Please let me stand.”
The 18-second video posted to Instagram on Wednesday shows a previously unseen angle of Floyd — who was arrested for allegedly trying to spend a counterfeit $20 bill at a deli — being subdued on the ground. The footage, whose origins remain unknown, made the rounds on the internet Thursday night.
As he’s on the ground, MPD officer Derek Chauvin leans on his neck and Tou Thao looks on. The video also shows two other officers on the ground, helping Chauvin subdue Floyd. Four officers were fired after Floyd’s death: Chauvin, Thao, Thomas Lane, and J. Alexander Kueng.
A second video, a 15-minute clip of body camera footage released by the Minneapolis Park Police on Thursday, shows an officer arriving at the scene and having discussions with multiple people whose images are redacted. Much of the audio is muted as well, but brief snippets of the officer’s side of the conversation as well as police radio chatter can be heard. Floyd’s arrest and cries for help can’t be seen or heard in this footage.
About nine and a half minutes in, the park officer says, “I gotta talk to my partner and see what’s up.” A few minutes later, he tells two onlookers to “stay put here until my partner and them are done over there and we can figure things out.”
“Right now, we’re grabbing an ambulance for your buddy,” he adds, presumably referring to Floyd. Later, he repeatedly tells people not to reach or “go into” a nearby SUV, which was shown in earlier footage as the car police pulled Floyd from.
These are just the newest videos released surrounding Floyd’s Memorial Day death, which has sparked violent protests in Minneapolis and other major American cities. The initial video, which went viral, shows Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for several minutes as Floyd cried out that he can't breathe. Floyd became unresponsive and later died. By the time EMS put him in the ambulance, Floyd didn't have a pulse, according to a report from the Minneapolis Fire Department.
Videos that surfaced later in the week — which show the moment that cops removed Floyd from his car and led him away in handcuffs — appeared to contradict Minneapolis police's account that Floyd resisted arrest.
Cover: A person walks past a building covered with graffiti Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis for a third straight night. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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