George Floyd should still be alive. There is no doubt about it. This was murder.

When other professionals responsible for the lives of citizens starts to call supervisors in realizing there was something very wrong with the apprehension of George Floyd, there is reason to believe there isn't anything that was done well or right and that his death was murder.

George Floyd was respected in his community and considered an important person to many, many people.

George Floyd was unarmed. The police developed new techniques to kill given all the fuss in the country about gunning down unarmed black men. That is my opinion and I am not going to change it.

March 29, 2021
By Janelle Griffith

Minneapolis - The first witness in Derek Chauvin's murder trial, (click here) a 911 dispatcher, testified Monday that she alerted a police supervisor May 25 after she watched Minneapolis police officers pin George Floyd to the ground live in a security video.

The dispatcher, Jena Scurry, said it was a "gut instinct" that led her to call a police sergeant who was a supervisor for the officers at the scene. She said she glanced up at wall-mounted dispatch screens between taking other calls and saw a police squad car moving back and forth outside Cup Foods, a convenience store. An employee at Cup Foods had called police alleging that Floyd had tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.

Scurry said that her job is primarily to listen and that it is rare for a dispatcher to witness an incident in which police are at a scene. She said she has observed police at a scene only three or four times in her seven-year career.

Scurry said the police officers restrained Floyd for so long that she asked someone whether her "screens had frozen because it hadn't changed" and "was told that it was not frozen."...