필로 니스 플로이드, the brother of George Floyd, says it has been an “emotional roller-coaster” sitting in the courtroom for the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Floyd told CNN that it was only on Monday that he learned for the first time that Chauvin actually knelt on his brother’s neck for 9 분 및 29 초. The original complaint said 8 분 및 46 초 which is the time that has become a widespread symbol of Floyd’s death.
Chauvin, 45, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree unintentional murder, 3 급 살인 and second-degree manslaughter charges.
His trial comes 10 months after 46-year-old Floyd’s death in police custody launched a summer of protest, unrest and a societal reckoning with anti-Black racism and aggressive policing in America.
“모두에게, 그것은 사건이자 원인이었다,” Floyd told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday morning when he appeared with family attorney Benjamin Crump. “나에게, 내 동생이었다, 내가 함께 자란 사람, 함께 먹는, 같은 침대에서 자고, 낚시하러 가다, 엄마와 함께 춤추는 모습 만보고. 제 오빠를 생각할 때 생각하는 것들이에요. 그는 보호자였다, 그는 우리가 곤경에 처하고 무엇이든 필요로 할 때 갈 수있는 사람이었습니다.,” Floyd said.
Crump told Camerota that the defense is “coming up with every excuse in the book other than what we saw in that video,” in reference to Chauvin’s defense lawyers pointing to underlying health conditions and drug use as contributing factors to George Floyd’s death.
“잘, I know the rules are different when it’s a marginalized person of color that is killed unjustifiably by the police, Alisyn,” Crump said.
“History has shown us, you and I have talked many times about these types of cases where police kill people in some of the most unbelievable ways, but yet because they are a Black person, they engage in the intellectual justification of discrimination and you are absolutely right, opioid use in America is an epidemic and so we are now going to say because George Floyd had a dependency issue like millions of other Americans that what we saw in that video was acceptable?”
“I think we’re better than that, 미국,” Crump 추가. “We have to have equal justice under the law for all Americans, whether they are Black or White.”
Philonise Floyd said he wants to see Chauvin convicted.
“하루의 끝에서, justice is a conviction,” 그는 말했다.
“So many times I have seen African American people killed and nobody gets a conviction. We’re all fighting across America, not just me. You see protesters all around the world. They’re all standing up for George Floyd. If you can’t get justice in America for this, what can you get justice for then?”
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