it's just after a p.m. on May 25th and the security cameras of this local restaurant are rolling the indicated time is about 20 minutes fast a blue Mercedes has been parked curbside on East 30th Street for several minutes we do not have footage showing when it arrived George Floyd is in the driver's seat a police car pulls up in front of this local convenience store and two officers walk in Minneapolis police said in a statement their officers responded to a report of a forgery in progress meaning someone was trying to use counterfeit money in a
store a few minutes later the officers cross the street and approached the vehicle the police said they found the suspect in his car the first officer approaches the driver while his partner walks around to the passenger side the interaction between the officer and Floyd can't clearly be seen from this angle but the driver of this black vehicle filmed part of it on his phone the officer struggles to get Floyd out of the car his colleague walks over to help him put the handcuffs on the black car pulls away and drives off after a few minutes
Floyd falls briefly to the ground the officer lifts him back up before leading him towards the sidewalk where he directs Floyd to sit on the ground a park police car shows up to the scene redacted body cam footage from that new officer was released by the park police chief the officer exits the car to see his two colleagues questioning Floyd and two people who were just in the car a few minutes later the officer helps Floyd up off the ground the video has no sound so we don't know what was sad between the two officers
and Floyd in this moment they walk him across the street back towards their squad car Floyd falls to the ground once more police originally said they noticed Floyd going into medical distressed and called an ambulance to the scene another police car pulls up obstructing our view from this angle and making it hard to clearly see what unfolded in the next four minutes between the officers and Floyd we do see officer Chauvin pull up to the scene with his colleague and behind the vehicles open door we can make out what seems to be a struggle whatever
was happening between Floyd and the officers at that very moment caught the attention of this passerby who stops to watch two minutes later a witness standing on Chicago Avenue captures part of the scene unfolding behind the squad car one officer looks over as three of his colleagues restrain Floyd who is lying face down on the ground in handcuffs we don't know how Floyd ended up on the ground one officer is pressing his knee in to Floyd's neck which we see clearly in this video taken only seconds later by another witness standing in front of the
grocery store she captured the next ten minutes of his deadly arrest up until he is taken away in an ambulance
