{"id":120132,"date":"2021-04-07T07:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=120132"},"modified":"2021-04-07T07:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:27:52","slug":"derek-chauvin-trial-live-expert-calls-use-of-force-on-george-floyd-excessive-brother-says-trial-is-agonizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/derek-chauvin-trial-live-expert-calls-use-of-force-on-george-floyd-excessive-brother-says-trial-is-agonizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chauvin trial live: Expert calls use of force on George Floyd &#8216;excessive&#8217;; brother says trial is &#8216;agonizing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0An expert witness was expected to return to the courtroom Wednesday in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin to face more questions about why he determined Chauvin&#8217;s use of force on George Floyd was &#8220;excessive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Jody Stiger, a Los Angeles Police Department officer\u00a0who has conducted about 2,500 use of force reviews in his career, said the initial\u00a0use of force on Floyd that day was appropriate because Floyd was resisting arrest as officers tried to get him into their patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>However, after officers forced\u00a0Floyd to\u00a0the ground, &#8220;they should have de-escalated the situation,&#8221; Stiger told jurors Tuesday. Instead, the officers continued to intensify the situation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rodney Floyd said\u00a0his brother\u2019s dying words from the videos played over and over again in the courtroom were supplanting\u00a0his memory of their last conversation, in which they reminisced about their late mother. &#8220;When someone dies you cherish their last words, but my brother\u2019s last words, oh, those words are stuck in my head. Agonizing,&#8221; he told reporters Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd, a Black man, died in police custody on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pinned his knee against Floyd\u2019s neck for more than nine minutes. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay updated on the Derek Chauvin trial: <\/strong>Sign up for text messages of key updates, follow USA TODAY Network reporters on Twitter, or subscribe to the Daily Briefing newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Witness testimony was expected to resume after 9:15 a.m. CST Wednesday.<\/li>\n<li>Fourteen jurors \u2013 12 to deliberate and two to serve as alternates \u2013 have heard from 26 witnesses called by the prosecution over the past week and a half.<\/li>\n<li>The EMT who leads the Minneapolis Police Department&#8217;s emergency medical response training said Tuesday officers are trained to call for an ambulance and provide medical aid if a situation is &#8220;critical.&#8221;\u00a0Officers who responded to Floyd did not render medical aid.<\/li>\n<li>Minneapolis police Lt. Johnny Mercil, a use-of-force expert, was presented with an image Tuesday of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd&#8217;s neck and told jurors the move was not a department-trained neck restraint.<\/li>\n<li>George Floyd\u2019s brothers, family attorney Ben Crump, national civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, held a prayer service outside the courthouse Tuesday afternoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Expert witness Sgt. Jody Stiger says Chauvin&#8217;s use of force was &#8216;excessive&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Prosecutors Tuesday afternoon called Sgt. Jody Stiger of the Los Angeles Police Department as an expert witness. Stiger has provided training to approximately 6,000 officers in de-escalation, basic patrol tactics and other subjects<\/p>\n<p>Stiger told jurors that, after reviewing the case, he determined Chauvin&#8217;s use of force was &#8220;excessive.&#8221; He said he uses the &#8220;objectively reasonable&#8221; standard established in the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case, Graham v. Connor.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Steve Schleicher led Stiger through the factors used to support that opinion, starting with a photo of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd&#8217;s neck.<\/p>\n<p>Stiger said he also examined the severity of the alleged offense, in this case, trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill. In such a case, &#8220;you wouldn&#8217;t even expect to use any kind of force,&#8221; said Stiger.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/04\/06\/USAT\/ee2fb922-3391-41bb-a6c5-7e6d3d0efa27-AP21096750276655.jpg?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\"><\/p>\n<p>In this image from video, witness Jody Stiger, a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant testifies as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Tuesday, April 6, 2021.<meta itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\" content=\"AP\" \/>&nbsp;<span>(Photo: AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next, Stiger said he examined the threat posed by Floyd. In certain cases, the size and stature of the subject may be relevant in evaluating use of force. But Stiger testified that it is not appropriate to use force against someone simply because of his or her larger size.<\/p>\n<p>He also said it was &#8220;not necessarily&#8221; required for the officers to use force to get Floyd into the car. One officer had established a bit of rapport with Floyd, and the officers could have used that to try to talk Floyd into the car, Stiger testified. After watching a video replay from one officer&#8217;s body camera, Stiger acknowledged that Floyd kicked the officer&#8217;s arms away one time as they struggled to control him.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/04\/07\/derek-chauvin-trial-live-george-floyd-force-excessive-minneapolis-police\/7105020002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0An expert witness was expected to return<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Derek Chauvin trial live: Expert calls use of force on George Floyd &#039;excessive&#039;; brother says trial is &#039;agonizing&#039; 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