Tuesday marks one week since the harrowing video of George Floyd pinned to the ground beneath a Minneapolis police officer’s knee went viral on social media.
The officer at the center of the video, Derek Chauvin, was arrested Friday and charged with causing Floyd’s death. All four of the officers at the scene were fired from the force. As activists call for the arrest of the other officers who were on the scene, police nationwide — who in the past have sometimes rallied behind officers accused of using excessive force or shooting suspects without good cause — are lining up to denounce what some are frankly calling “murder.”
The video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes — several minutes past the time when he appeared unresponsive — left little room for ambiguity about what happened.
“I was waiting for someone to push the officer off,” Camden County Police Chief Joseph D. Wysocki told Yahoo News. “We watched a murder unfold. … It was disgusting to see.”
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