Mild start to the week, cold blast ahead
| Three ex-cops' trial in Floyd killing enters second week | Testimony last week began with body camera footage showing police confronting Floyd and then taking him to the ground as bystanders begged for them to release him. It ended with testimony from a Minneapolis police inspector who said the three former officers didn’t comply with their training or department policies.
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane are all charged with failing to provide medical treatment for the dying man. Thao and Kueng are also charged with failing to intervene as Chauvin used excessive force.
"You’ll hear that the medical aid that would have saved George Floyd’s life was as simple as that, turning George Floyd on his side so his heart kept beating,” prosecutor Samantha Trepel said at the beginning of the trial. Read more from MPR News reporter Jon Collins.
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