Firefighter Testifies: 'I Was Desperate To Help ... And This Human Was Denied That'
Video footage played in court on Tuesday shows Genevieve Hansen pleading with officers on top of George Floyd for a chance to help him. She asked them to check his pulse. They ignored her requests.
Genevieve Hansen expected Monday, May 25 to be a peaceful day.
That's what she told jurors on Tuesday in the murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin who is accused of killing George Floyd last year.
Instead, during an off-duty walk home from a community garden she heard a woman yelling that the police were killing the black man, prone and in handcuffs, face down in the street.
Hansen, who is a trained emergency medical technician and Minneapolis firefighter, testified that upon taking in the scene, she moved
