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Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-05-24): A year has passed since George Floyd - an unarmed African American man - was murdered during an arrest by white officer Derek Chauvin. Videos of the incident - which showed Chauvin kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for several minutes - triggered protests across the US and around the world over police brutality and racism in law enforcement. [...] Chauvin, 44, placed his left knee on Mr Floyd's neck and shoulder, and kept it there for more than nine minutes, according to prosecutors. Two other officers helped pin him down, while another prevented witnesses from intervening.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-04-07): Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Jody Stiger, a use-of-force expert who testified for the prosecution in Derek Chauvin's murder trial, agrees with Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo that the defendant violated his department's policies when he pinned George Floyd to the pavement with his knee for more than nine minutes. Stiger, who testified yesterday and today, elaborated on the reasoning behind that conclusion. [...] Stiger said kneeling on Floyd for as long as Chauvin did amounted to deadly force, because "the pressure that was being caused by the body weight could cause positional asphyxia." He said the danger of positional asphyxia, which has been widely recognized for decades, exists whenever a handcuffed arrestee is restrained on his stomach for an extended period of time. He noted that applying pressure magnifies that risk. [...] When prosecutor Steve Schleicher asked Stiger to clarify whether the risk of positional asphyxia depends on whether pressure is applied specifically to the neck, Stiger said "it's the pressure on the body" that "complicates breathing." Whether Chauvin's knee was on Floyd's neck or, as Nelson prefers to describe it, "between the shoulder blades at the base of the neck," the crucial point is that he was pressing down on Floyd throughout the encounter, which aggravated the asphyxiation risk created by forcing him to lie on his chest with his hands behind his back. That situation made Floyd's complaints that he could not breathe perfectly understandable and plausible, even if the cops thought he was faking.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2024-05-22): Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin allegedly knelt on the back of a woman he was arresting mere months before he pulled the same move, that turned fatal, on George Floyd, a new federal lawsuit contends. It’s yet another excessive force case that's come to light against Chauvin, who is white, now serving time on state charges of murder in connection with the death of Floyd, a Black man, as well as federal charges of violating his civil rights. [...] In a press release, Day said: "Sadly, my experience with Derek Chauvin is not unique. George Floyd died at the hands of this individual, and had the City intervened on his behavior after my interaction, he could still be alive today. Other people have also had their civil rights violated, like Zoya Code and John Pope, showing his aggressive patterns. It was a traumatic part of my life that I hope no one else will have to endure."
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-04-21): Why Derek Chauvin was found guilty of both murder and manslaughter over George Floyd's death Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of murdering George Floyd, or — more precisely — he's been found guilty of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter. [...] To convict Chauvin on the second-degree murder charge, the jury needed to be convinced he unintentionally killed Mr Floyd while committing or trying to commit another crime — assault in the third degree.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-03-31): Moments after George Floyd was taken away in an ambulance last May, former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was confronted by a witness who took issue with Chauvin’s kneeling on Floyd’s neck. [...] Charles McMillian, the 61-year-old witness, testified that he observed Floyd’s arrest on May 25, 2020, and that he encouraged Floyd to comply with police, repeatedly saying, "you can’t win." As Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck and Floyd cried out for help, McMillian can be heard on video telling police to "get your knee off his neck." [...] Prosecutors have called several bystanders to describe their horror and fear at watching Floyd die last May. Their testimony furthers the prosecution’s opening statement that asked jurors to focus on video of the 9 minutes and 29 seconds that Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-04-09): Derek Chauvin trial: Police restraint killed George Floyd, expert says - Published [...] Mr Chauvin, 45, was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes during his arrest last May. [...] The footage of Mr Chauvin, who is white, with his knee on African-American Mr Floyd's neck sparked global protests against racism.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-04-15): Fact check: Derek Chauvin did not have hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd The claim: Derek Chauvin's hand was in his pocket while pinning George Floyd to the ground [...] The claim that former Officer Derek Chauvin had his hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd is FALSE, based on our research. A review of the full video of the incident, along with a lightened version of the photo used in the claim, shows Chauvin was wearing a black glove on his left hand that blended in with his dark pants. The hand was actually resting on his leg and hip at various points.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-03-31): On the second day of Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd, the most powerful testimony came from children. Three high school juniors and a second grader, trying to purchase snacks and a cord to play music in the car, witnessed Chauvin, then a Minneapolis police officer, using his knee to pin Floyd’s neck to the ground outside of Cup Foods. The teenagers recorded the incident on their phones. They heard Floyd call out for help. They saw a firefighter arriving on the scene and demanding a pulse check. And they heard when Floyd stopped speaking and appeared to lose consciousness. [...] [Chauvin] was digging his knee into George Floyd’s neck. He did grab his mace and started shaking it at us.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-03-22): Derek Chauvin, the former officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck before he lost consciousness, now faces charges of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, and three other officers have been arrested, taken off the force, and are scheduled to be tried separately later this summer. [...] I’m not a lawyer, nor am I on the jury. All I know about the death of Floyd is what the entire world knows: After his arrest, Floyd complained about being unable to breathe. The three other officers who were on the scene have also been charged with aiding and abetting in the death, with Chauvin putting his knee on Floyd’s neck, a hand in his pocket. Despite telling police what has been documented as more than 20 times that he couldn’t breathe, and despite onlookers pleading with police to let him breathe, there Chauvin remained for several minutes. [...] Derek Chauvin had had his knee on George Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes. George Floyd died with Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck, and it was all captured on video.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-04-19): The attorneys in the trial of former Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with murdering George Floyd, finished closing arguments Monday, turning over to jurors a case that has become the centerpiece in a high-stakes drama over race and justice in a nation with a troubled history of police brutality. [...] Prosecutors argued that Chauvin repeatedly violated police procedure and training when he arrived outside a corner store where Floyd had allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. During the trial, they repeatedly referred to the video of Floyd gasping and struggling to speak under what prosecutors said amounted to about 90 pounds of pressure, while Chauvin appeared calm, with his left hand in his pocket. [...] "A reasonable police officer wants to keep his fellow officers safe," said Nelson, who argued that volatile bystanders contributed to a chaotic situation that justified Chauvin’s actions before and during the time he knelt on Floyd’s neck to make an arrest. Chauvin declined to take the stand in his own defense.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-04-10): An unprecedented lineup of law enforcement officers – including the Minneapolis police chief – tookthe stand at the murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, denouncing him for kneeling on the neck of George Floyd for more than nine minutes. [...] Chauvin knelt on Floyd for nine minutes and 29 seconds, according to prosecutors. A renowned pulmonary critical care doctor testified Thursday that Floyd died from a "low level of oxygen" when Chauvin pinned him to the street and restricted his ability to breathe. [...] Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the charges Derek Chauvin faces in George Floyd's death. They are second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He has pleaded not guilty.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2024-10-06): When Bernard C. Parks, former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, watched the videotape of Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, Parks noticed something that most people did not. As the world well knows, Chauvin and his partners forcibly confronted Floyd outside a convenience store on May 25. With his knee, Chauvin pinned Floyd to the ground. Floyd was face down. He gasped, and he begged Chauvin to let him up. Floyd pleaded: "I can’t breathe." Parks viewed the video with 37 years of experience as a police officer. He is African American and grew up in the LAPD. He became chief in 1997 and was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2002. Today, when some people respond to the indisputable observation that "Black lives matter" by insisting that "blue lives matter," Parks represents both viewpoints — and, as his life is testament, he is willing to air his views and unwilling to bend them to the desires of others. It is not surprising, then, that when Bernard Parks watched Chauvin press his blue knee into Floyd’s black neck, Parks noticed something telling.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-04-30): Prosecutors have already put supervisory officers on the stand to testify that, even if Chauvin pinning Floyd with his knee fell within policy, doing so for 9 minutes, 29 seconds did not. In their pretrial filing, they said Chauvin and two other officers held their positions for four minutes after Floyd lost consciousness — and two minutes beyond when he no longer had a pulse. [...] One witness testified she saw Chauvin lift his right leg at one point, shifting his full weight onto Floyd’s neck with his left leg. Another said Chauvin never eased up, either by putting a hand on the ground or leaning on a squad car next to him. [...] Nelson has also made clear he will argue that Floyd died because of drugs he had taken, not because of Chauvin’s actions. An autopsy found fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd’s system.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-03-31): Prosecution witnesses on Tuesday described in searing detail their horror in watching the final moments of George Floyd's life as they testified against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis policeman charged with Floyd's murder. [...] "Mr. Chauvin seemed very comfortable with the majority of his weight balanced on top of Mr. Floyd," Genevieve Hansen, who took the stand in her white Minneapolis Fire Department uniform with a badge and black tie, told jurors. "In my memory, he had his hand in his pocket." [...] Minutes later, Frazier's young cousin, her hair in braids, took her place in the witness stand, saying in a small voice she recognised Chauvin as the man she saw kneeling on Floyd.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2020-06-29): Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd, will make a court appearance Monday, along with the three other officers charged in Floyd’s death. [...] Floyd died on May 25 after Chauvin was caught on video kneeling on his neck. Lane and Kueng helped restrain Floyd, while Thao stood by. Prosecutors said earlier this month that Chauvin, 44, had Floyd pinned for 7 minutes and 46 seconds — not the 8 minutes, 46 seconds originally believed. They said the one-minute difference shouldn’t impact the criminal case against the officers.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-04-21): Eleven months ago, George Floyd joined a long line of African Americans killed during encounters with police. He is not the first to become a rallying cry for demonstrations, a flash point in conversations about race and policing, a story that Black parents dread telling their children. But his is the death that has prompted the country’s most intense reckoning in decades, one affecting nearly every U.S. institution. That is certain to continue now that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin — who knelt on Floyd’s neck until he no longer could breathe — has been found guilty of murder. [...] Ari Tulay cried when she saw the video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck. As a young Black woman who had grown up between St. Paul, Minn., and Louisville — where Breonna Taylor, another Black woman, had just been killed in her apartment during a botched police raid — Tulay experienced the two deaths in a deeply personal way. [...] The latest: Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-02-02): Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe last May, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. [...] Chauvin, who was fired, has said through his attorney that his handling of Floyd’s arrest was a reasonable use of authorized force. But he was the subject of at least 22 complaints or internal investigations during his more than 19 years at the department, only one of which resulted in discipline. These new interviews show not only that he may have used excessive force in the past, but that he had used startlingly similar techniques. [...] Chauvin’s lawyer, Nelson, said in a court filing that the officer had acted according to police policy. "It was after midnight in South Minneapolis, and a man who refused to remove his hands from his pockets repeatedly approached the officers after being told not to," he said. The filing said Peet’s actions had created concern for the officers’ safety.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2020-06-01): That image is not of the officer who was pinning George Floyd to the ground, killing him slowly and brutally. That image is wretched and causes shivers to run down my spine. But I’ve never killed a person. I am not overtly racist. Insert all the comments here about having black friends, black teammates, black members of the congregation that I pastor who I love deeply and appreciate greatly. I would never find myself in the same position as Derek Chauvin, the officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, hands in his pocket, casually looking at the camera. No, the haunting image I cannot get out of my mind, the one I wept as I watched the video and saw myself in, is that of the second police officer. Standing nearby. Rarely looking at George Floyd and Derek Chauvrin. Scanning back and forth, up and down the street. Telling the onlookers that it isn’t that bad. That George Floyd is fine. As I watched the video, I found myself pleading with that man to run over and push Derek Chauvin off of George Floyd. I was vocally begging him to do something. To go stop what was happening. [...] The time has long since come; action is required. In the same way I longed for that second office to push Derek Chauvin off George Floyd, it will take action to to overturn the systems that have their knee on the neck of those around us. That requires all of us.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2024-10-06): The photograph that captures the here and now of the here and now is of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, slowly, calmly, choking the life out of George Floyd, a recently laid-off restaurant worker. It’s the blithe calmness of the execution that is so unsettling. Chauvin has his knee planted firmly on Floyd’s neck, placing a good part of his weight on it. Floyd is handcuffed, so not much of a threat to Chauvin. The police officer has his sunglasses perched on top of his head, the way people do at parks or in backyards. But it’s the way Chauvin’s left hand rests casually in his pants pocket that just did me in. The banality of evil, as Hannah Arendt so memorably described Adolf Eichmann’s indifferent manner at his 1961 trial for war crimes, was also on full display in Minneapolis that day in May. [...] At a time of global injustice and inequality, it is not surprising that a photograph like the one of Chauvin calmly squeezing the life out of Floyd lit the flame of protest around the world. And it is almost impossible not to side with the response. Time and time again over the past decade, American courts have failed to charge police officers who have killed African-American men, women, and children. If you are black and living in the U.S., you have every right to demand justice and equality. To do otherwise is to turn the American Dream—if ever there really was one—into a waking nightmare.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2020-06-05): Nearly 28 years after the L.A. riots, here we are again. Not for the beating of an unarmed black man but for the murder of George Floyd caught on video. We are no longer in shock by these videos as we were in 1991. This time, instead of a video being shot from emerging technology providing grainy footage, we saw an up close, clear video of Officer Chauvin casually kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for more than seven minutes, with Chauvin continuing to kneel on Floyd’s neck for two more minutes after his cries for help ceased and his body went limp. We saw Officer Chauvin nonchalantly kneel on the neck of a man for almost ten minutes with his hand in his pocket as he confidently posed for the camera. The same store, where someone called the police regarding a counterfeit $20 bill Floyd used minutes earlier, was now calling the police on the police, as it watched the murder of George Floyd. The entire world saw it!
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2024-06-04): The two are reenacting what would ultimately ignite the outrage of the world: the murder of George Floyd by Officer Derek Chauvin.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2020-05-31): In the city of Minneapolis, the disturbing videos capture the entire murder of Floyd by four police officers in broad daylight and in front of other civilian bystander witnesses, even while these officers knew that they were being recorded. Even while the civilian bystander witnesses plead with the police officers to stop. What does that say about the normalcy of police brutality in this country? What does that say about men abusing their power and expecting to get away scot-free? You see it in the video yourself. These four men act so nonchalantly, Chauvin with his hands in his pockets at one point, while Floyd is pinned to the ground, dying – pleading for his life and suffocating to death in front of their very eyes.
Claim: Derek Chauvin had his left hand in his pocket while kneeling on George Floyd. (Facebook posts, 2021-04-06)
Evidence (2021-03-30): Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin's trial began Monday morning. Chauvin faces three charges, including second-degree murder, in the death of George Floyd. [...] Murder suspect Derek Chauvin "looked so comfortable" while putting "the majority of his weight" on top of George Floyd's neck, a firefighter testified. [...] George Floyd's nephew, Brandon Williams, said he walked out of the Hennepin County District Court's overflow room Monday when prosecutors showed a graphic bystander video during opening statements of Floyd pinned under Derek Chauvin's knee.
Claim: Hank Aaron and Marvelous Marvin Hagler died “after taking the COVID-19 vaccine.” (Aubrey Huff, 2021-03-14)
Evidence (2021-03-14): The cause of Aaron’s death was ruled natural and not linked to the COVID-19 vaccine. It is not yet known whether Hagler received a COVID-19 vaccine or what caused his death.
Claim: Hank Aaron and Marvelous Marvin Hagler died “after taking the COVID-19 vaccine.” (Aubrey Huff, 2021-03-14)
Evidence (2021-03-15): One of Marvin Hagler's biggest career rivals, Thomas Hearns, has insinuated that his death happened due to the after-effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. [...] With Marvin Hagler's condition deteriorating, hours before his death, Hearns uploaded a picture of 'Marvelous' to his social media. The caption suggested that the former champion was sick because of his recent vaccination against the coronavirus. [...] "We are very sad to report that Marvelous Marvin Hagler died on March 13 of natural causes near his home in New Hampshire. He was a champion until the end."