Apparently aware that officer Derek Chauvin could be acquitted in the death of George Floyd, Minneapolis city leaders are urging local business owners to have an emergency preparedness plan in place, particularly for the later stages of the trial, which began Monday with jury selection.
The state has allocated $36 million for security for the trial, including multi-layered fencing around the court house in Minneapolis. The protests that erupted in response to a horrific video that showed Chauvin with his knee on Floyd before he died May 25 cost an estimated $2 billion in damages and a much greater social impact.
The defense, however, as WND reported, contends the officer body cam footage released by the prosecution long after the viral video of Floyd’s final moments shows the officer adhered to his training by the Minneapolis Police Department.
The neck restraint, the attorneys argue, was part of the protocol to keep someone in a drug-induced state of excited delirium from harm by holding him in place. And two days after the four officers were charged, the toxicology report was released showing Floyd had more than three times the fatal dosage of fetanyl in his blood.
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