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The shooting of Daunte Wright by Police Officer Kim Potter occurred during the Minneapolis murder trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd.

George Floyd died of a sudden heart rhythm problem due to his heart disease while being restrained by police, a retired forensic pathologist testified for the defense Wednesday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, contradicting several experts who said Floyd succumbed to a lack of oxygen.

Former Officer Derek Chauvin was justified in pinning George Floyd to the ground because he kept struggling, a use-of-force expert testified for the defense Tuesday, contradicting a parade of authorities from both inside and outside the Minneapolis Police Department. Taking the stand at Chauvin’s murder trial, Barry Brodd, a former Santa Rosa, California, officer, stoutly defended Chauvin’s actions, even as a prosecutor pounded...

Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, delivered damning testimony in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, saying, “No reasonable officer would have believed that that was an appropriate, acceptable or reasonable use of force.”

George Floyd’s younger brother took the witness stand Monday and lovingly recalled how George used to make the best banana mayonnaise sandwiches, how George drilled him in catching a football, and the way George used to mark his height on the wall as a boy because he wanted to grow taller.

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota spoke after Daunte Wright was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop near Minneapolis on Sunday. “It doesn’t need to be this way,” said Walz. “We don’t have to continue having these press conferences, and having what may be a routine traffic stop end in a 20-year-old dead, a family devastated and a community...

Protestors marched in the streets of Brooklyn Center, Minn., after the family of 20-year-old Daunte Wright says he was shot by police at a traffic stop. Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz tweeted that he and his wife are “praying for Daunte Wright’s family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.”

The chief county medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide testified Friday that the way police held him down and compressed his neck “was just more than Mr. Floyd could take,” given the condition of his heart.

The Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner testified in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin on Friday. “The law enforcement subdual, restraint and the neck compression was just more than Mr. Floyd could take by virtue of those heart conditions,” Dr. Andrew Baker said. “Mr. Floyd’s use of fentanyl did not cause the subdual or the neck restraint.”

George Floyd died of a lack of oxygen from being pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck, a medical expert testified at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial Thursday, emphatically rejecting the defense theory that Floyd’s drug use and underlying health problems were what killed him.

Officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck — and was bearing down with most of his weight — the entire 9 1/2 minutes the Black man lay facedown with his hands cuffed behind his back, a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday at Chauvin’s murder trial.

Minneapolis police are taught to restrain combative suspects with a knee on their back or shoulders if necessary but are told to “stay away from the neck when possible,” a department use-of-force instructor testified Tuesday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial.

The emergency room doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead after trying to resuscitate him testified Monday that he theorized at the time that Floyd’s heart most likely stopped because he didn’t get enough oxygen.

Kneeling on George Floyd’s neck while he was handcuffed and in the prone position was “top-tier, deadly force” and “totally unnecessary,” the head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s homicide division testified Friday.

“He was a boyfriend, he was a father, he was a son.” Prosecutors trying former officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd brought Floyd’s girlfriend to the stand. Courteney Ross provided a look beyond the video footage into Floyd’s personal life and how they met. NBC News and MSNBC Legal Contributor Katie Phang talks with LX News about...

George Floyd’s girlfriend tearfully told a jury Thursday the story of how they met — at a Salvation Army shelter where he was a security guard with “this great, deep Southern voice, raspy” — and how they both struggled mightily with an addiction to opioids.

After the ambulance took George Floyd away, the Minneapolis officer who had pinned his knee on the Black man’s neck defended himself to a bystander by saying Floyd was “a sizable guy” and “probably on something,” according to police video played in court Wednesday. The video was part of a mountain of footage — both official and amateur — and witness testimony at Officer...

The former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd went on trial Monday, with prosecutors promptly showing the jury the video of Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on the Black man’s neck for several minutes as onlookers yelled at Chauvin to get off and Floyd gasped that he couldn’t breathe.

Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was videoed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck before he died.

George Floyd’s family and civil rights leaders gave remarks before the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday morning. Chauvin faces charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death.