#Police footage shows George Floyd’s last words: ‘Man, I can’t breathe’

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Ex-Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin kneels on George Floyd’s neck, which led to his death and subsequent worldwide protests.
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George Floyd’s last words before he died during an encounter with Minneapolis police were “I can’t breathe,” according to transcripts from new police bodycam video.

Two videos viewed Wednesday by CNN revealed Floyd’s final words as police officer Derek Chauvin put pressure on his neck after cops responded to a report of a “fake bill” used a nearby market.

“Man, I can’t breathe,” Floyd said about 16 minutes into the footage from the body cameras of Thomas Lane and J. Keung, CNN reports.

Paramedics then responded to Floyd — a black man who was handcuffed at that point — some 9 minutes after the knee was first placed on his neck, according to the report.

Floyd’s motionless body was then loaded into an ambulance, the video shows.

All four officers in the incident have been fired. Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.

Lane, Kueng and Tou Thao have been charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter.

Bodycam footage of the May 25 incident that sparked nationwide protests against policy brutality has not been released by Minneapolis police amid an ongoing investigation by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, CNN reports.

The videos and accompanying transcripts were filed in court last week by Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, as part of a motion to have the former officer’s case dismissed.

Gray’s motion cited portions of the body-cam video that depicted Floyd “actively resisting and acting erratic” during the incident and also noted Floyd’s “request” to be put on the ground.

But only the written transcripts were made public Wednesday by Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill, who is presiding over the cases against the four former cops, CNN reports.

An attorney for Chauvin declined to comment Wednesday, according to CNN.

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