Trial Day One: ‘Mr. Derek Chauvin Betrayed This Badge’

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“You can believe your eyes, that it’s homicide,” Jerry W. Blackwell, one of the prosecutors, told jurors in an opening statement. “It’s murder.”

The first day in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is accused of killing George Floyd in May, featured an intense series of opening arguments, numerous photographs and videos of the killing, and testimony from three witnesses.

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Article URL : https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/03/29/981689486/jury-will-hear-opening-arguments-in-derek-chauvin-trial-on-monday