“The police officer involved in the death of Floyd, who was identified as Derek Chauvin, was placed in detention” by the criminal police, said John Harrington, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Security.
Prosecutor Mike Freeman later said that Chauvin is accused of third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
On Tuesday the four policemen involved in the arrest of Floyd, who was to die in police custody in the state of Minnesota, in the United States, were fired.
“We all watched George Floyd’s horrible death on video, while witnesses asked the officer to take him into the police car, stopping pressure on his neck. This abusive, excessive and inhuman use of force cost a man his life. detained by the police for questioning a non-violent charge, “the death victim’s lawyer said in a statement.
In addition to complaining that his neck hurt, in the published video, the victim is heard begging for water and telling the agent repeatedly that he cannot breathe, while a woman’s voice says the victim is bleeding from the nose. and another passerby is accusing the police of “liking” the situation.
Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said the department would conduct a full internal investigation.
The security force also claimed that the man corresponded to a suspect’s description of a counterfeiting case in a supermarket and that he resisted arrest.
In Minneapolis, the department’s regulation of force use allows an agent to kneel on a suspect’s neck, as a “non-lethal force option” for officers trained in that direction.
This regulation clarifies, however, that “officers must use only the amount of force necessary that is objectively reasonable” and that strangulation is “considered a deadly force option”, with respect to cases where the victim’s airways are obstructed.
The agents involved in the case are now on paid administrative leave, according to the protocol of the Minnesota Department of Criminal Seizure (BCA), having clarified that the names of the policemen will be released after initial interviews with people involved and with witnesses.
The FBI is conducting a federal investigation at the request of the Minneapolis police, the BCA said.
The police union, on the other hand, asked the public to wait for the investigation to proceed and not to “hurry to judge and immediately condemn the police.”
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