Chauvin’s Trial: Body-cam Footage Shows Floyd Pleading With Officers: “Please Don’t Shoot Me”
Body-camera footage aired today during the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin showed George Floyd crying and begging officers to “please don’t shoot me” as they first approached him in a car in May 2020.
The video was from former officer Thomas Lane’s body camera.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” Floyd said could be heard saying right after Lane approached a car Floyd was sitting in.
“Please don’t shoot me,” Floyd added, while crying. “Please don’t shoot me, Mr. Officer.”
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“I’m scared as f**k,” Floyd said in footage aired today during the trial.
“I’m not a bad guy,” Floyd said. “Please officer.”
As Floyd was taken to the ground by the officers, he can be heard yelling out “momma,” “momma I love you,” and “tell my kids I love them.”
Meanwhile, in another body-camera footage from Minneapolis Police officer J. Alexander Kueng, George Floyd told officers that he didn’t want any problems and didn’t understand what was going on when officers pulled him out of the car.
Here is the exchange when Floyd is handcuffed and sitting against the wall outside:
Floyd: I don’t want no problems. I didn’t do nothing.
Kueng: Do you know why we’re here?
Floyd: Why?
Kueng: We’re here because it sounds like you gave a fake bill to the individuals in there. Do you understand that?
Floyd: Yes.
Kueng: Do you know why we pulled you out of the car? Because you were not listening to anything we told you.
Floyd: I didn’t know what was going on.
Kueng: You listen to us and we’ll tell you what’s going on. When you’re moving around like that, that makes us think there’s a lot more going on that we need to know.
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Kueng tells Floyd that he is going to put him in the squad car and you can hear officers ask if he is “on something” as they start to walk to the other side of the street. Floyd answers that he’s “not on nothing.”
