https://www.startribune.com/officer-lane-seeks-dismissal-in-floyd-killing/571675112/new filings reveal a transcript of the unreleased bodycam footage from police arresting george floyd
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A transcript of Lane's body camera video shows that Floyd pleaded with officers not to shoot him during their initial encounter, and later begged for them not to place him in the back of the squad before the fatal encounter during which he pleaded for his mother and said "tell my kids I love them."
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. God dang man. Man, I got shot. I got shot the same way, Mr. Officer, before," Floyd initially told Lane as he approached him in his vehicle.
As Lane pulled Floyd from the vehicle, he asked a witness, Shawanda Renee Hill, why he was acting erratically.
"Why's he getting all squirelly [sic] and not showing us his hands, just being all weird like that?"
"I have no clue, because he's been shot before," she said.
"Well I get that, but still when officers say 'Get out of the car.' Is he drunk? Is he on something?"
"No, he got a thing going on, I'm telling you about the police … He have problems all the time when they come, especially when that man put that gun like that."
Lane and Keung attempted to put Floyd in the back of the squad, during which he repeatedly begged them not to.
"Oh man, God don't leave me man, please man, please man," he pleaded, telling them he was claustrophobic as the officers repeatedly ordered him into the back of the squad.
"I'm not that kind of guy, man, I'm not that kind of guy … and I just had COVID, I don't want to go back to that."
Officers then laid Floyd on the ground as he repeatedly told them he couldn't breathe and pleaded for his mother. Chauvin then arrived on the scene and asked if Floyd was going to jail. Kueng explained that he was under arrest for forgery.
"Do you got your, ah, restraint? Hobble?" Chauvin asked. The officers then called for "Code 2" for medics. Lane said he banged his head against the partition glass in the squad, resulting in a cut.
"You're under arrest guy," Chauvin said.
"All right, all right. Oh my god. I can't believe this. I can't believe this … Mom, I love you … Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead."
"You're doing a lot of talking, man." Chauvin said.
Eventually officers stepped up the call to Code 3 as Lane asked whether Floyd should be rolled on his side. Chauvin said it wasn't necessary. Witnesses then pleaded with officers to get off Floyd, in a bystander video since viewed by millions that sparked international outrage.
Eventually Floyd lost consciousness and Lane did chest compressions while he discussed what happened with medics. Floyd was in full cardiac arrest.
"Was he fighting with you guys for a long time?" one asked.
"No. I mean a little bit, but not a long time, maybe a minute or two. We were just trying to get him in the squad and he came out the other end, so we were like we'll just wait."
"I wonder what he was on," the medic said.
"Not sure but he seemed very agitated and paranoid," Lane said.
"That's a shame," the medic said.
"Yeah," Lane replied. He was then called back to Cup Foods and asked for a lift back before he signed off.
An autopsy by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner found fentanyl in Floyd's system and evidence of prior methamphetamine use.
Furthermore, the filing reveals police found
counterfeit $20 bills in Floyd's vehicle:
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The Defense for former MPD officer Thomas Lane, charged in the death of George Floyd, says these are two counterfeit $20 bills found in the vehicle where George Floyd was sitting when police arrived.
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