Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric J. Nelson, presented the video of the May 2019 arrest and questioned the paramedic who treated Floyd that day. He said that showed similarities between the two arrests, but he allowed the jury to see only about 90 seconds of the 2019 video. Dan Herbert, a defence lawyer in Chicago who specializes in representing police officers, said the defence accomplished its goals in presenting the 2019 arrest. “I don’t think Nelson scored a point at all,” said Albert Goins, a retired Minneapolis defence lawyer who represented the family of Jamar Clark, a Black man killed by the Minneapolis police in 2015. Another witness was Peter Chang, a Minneapolis Park Police officer who responded to the scene and was asked to watch Floyd’s car.

Source: bd News24 April 14, 2021 15:22 UTC