| April 5, 2021 Tonight will be partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce damaging winds and large hail. Lows will be in the 30s up north, to upper 40s to mid-50s down south.Get the latest from Updraft. Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo took the stand today in the murder trial of one of his former officers. This is the start of the second week of testimony in the trial of Derek Chauvin, whom Arradondo fired just days after he was videotaped kneeling on George Floyd as he died.
Arradondo testified that he saw the bystander video of the attempted arrest of Floyd, and said he knew immediately something was wrong. The chief has previously called the killing of George Floyd "murder" and said it wasn't due to lack of training. The prosecution has worked to present evidence that Chauvin — who knelt on Floyd's neck for around 9 minutes — was properly trained on use of force and de-escalation. Minnesota reported an additional 10 deaths in the latest COVID-19 data. The Easter and Passover holidays disrupted care, testing and data reporting for the pandemic. The latest data includes 1,400 new cases, only about 2/3 of the recent daily average. Testing was also down. But the latest data also marks a continuing rise of key indicators; daily hospital admissions are averaging over 70 across the state for the first time since January, and active cases identified in the state are just short of 15,000, now nearly triple what they were at the beginning of March. Vaccine doses administered to Minnesotans also continue to show strength, nearing an average of 55,000 doses per day. That average has risen by more than a third since the beginning of last month.
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