9-year-old testifies for prosecution in Derek Chauvin trial

this witness is a minor as you can hear so we're not going to see her we will only hear her let's listen 10. and then you've got a 10th birthday coming up yes what grade are you in third do you have a cousin named darnell yes uh do you remember going with her sometime last year in may yeah you went you have to let me finish my question but do you remember going with her to cut foods yes and you like going to cut foods to buy snacks yes did you go with your cousin darnella sometime in may of last year to get snacks yeah let me show you was exhibit 14. nope [Music] jesus okay showing you what's been marked as our exhibit number 13 and asking can you see the two people yes in the front of that picture can you yeah who are those people me and my cousin and uh which one is you [Music] all right uh and uh so the the little one with the word love on her shirt yes now you uh you that day you went in the cup foods to get to get your snacks yeah and when you came out of the the cup foods you remember what you did next when you came out i saw that i also put a neonatal george floyd okay now you mentioned someone named george floyd yes uh did you know george floyd before may 25th i can't hear it could you say that again you can't hear no okay had you ever met george floyd before you know going into cut foods that day no as far as you know had you ever seen it no now when you came out to where your cousin was and you saw george floyd was there a policeman there yes do you remember what the policemen or policemen were doing putting them in your neck with george floyd um if i showed you a picture of a policeman why don't i just do that let me ask if you recognize the policeman in what's marked as exhibit 17. do you recognize this man yes who is he i can't remember his name okay do you remember what he was doing how do you know him he was pushing me a neck with george floyd do you see him at the courtroom today no okay how about him yes all right so is that the person that you you saw yes [Music] so you saw a knee being put uh on the neck of george floyd when was the knee taken did you see that the knee was ever taken off of george floyd's name no uh were you there when an ambulance came yes tell us what happened after you saw the ambulance coming he asked the emblems had to push him off of them and how did that happen did they simply come in an ambulance and then go up to push him off or what happened they asked him nicely to get off of him and when they asked him nicely to get off of him what did he do he still stayed on him and then what happened after he still stayed on him what did the ambulance people do they just had to pull them off get off [Music] uh are you able to to tell us having been there on this day and seeing the the officer on top of george floyd how did you feel about that how did it affect you i was sad and kind of mad and tell us why were you sad in that because it felt like he was stopping his breathing and it is kind of like hurting him thank you judeo i want to ask you the young question hi everyone george stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the abc news youtube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don't forget to download the abc news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching

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Length: 5min 24sec (324 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 30 2021