A Minnesota judge in the case of four ex-Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd ruled in favor of defense attorneys to allow video and transcripts of a previous police encounter with Floyd to be made public.
Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill rejected the prosecution’s push to place a 48-hour seal on court filings. It followed a move by one of the defense attorneys to submit evidence of Floyd’s May 2019 arrest – which took place almost a year before he died in police custody as a result of being pinned down on a Minneapolis street.
Cahill said in Thursday’s court proceedings that the video “shows what basically everybody knows: George Floyd was arrested on a previous occasion,” according to the Star Tribune.
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