Then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin used an unreasonable amount of force on George Floyd, who was accused of using counterfeit money and then resisted arrest, an expert told jurors in Chauvin’s trial on April 12. “Both the knee across Mr. Floyd’s neck and the prone restraint were unreasonable, excessive, and contrary to generally accepted police…

The judge presiding over the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday rejected a motion from the defense to sequester the jury. Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric Nelson, asked Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill to order jurors be isolated because of violence that erupted on Sunday after an officer-involved shooting in Brooklyn Center left one…

The judge presiding over the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on April 12 rejected a motion from the defense to sequester the jury. Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric Nelson, asked Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill to order jurors be isolated because of violence that erupted on April 11 after a black man died was shot…

The medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide caused by law enforcement restraint last year told a courtroom on Friday that Floyd’s health history and intoxication contributed to the death. Floyd, 46, suffered from “very severe underlying heart disease” and was a factor in the death, as was the toxicology findings that he…

The medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide caused by law enforcement restraint last year told a courtroom on April 9 that Floyd’s health history and intoxication contributed to the death. Floyd, 46, suffered from “very severe underlying heart disease” that was a factor in the death, as was the toxicology findings that…

George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen while being restrained by police officers last year, a medical expert told the court during the trial of one of the former officers involved. “A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died as a result of what he was subjected to,”…