Williams said: "We just didn't have no connection. "Why didn't you just talk to them about it?" "There were police there, right?" Frank responded. I felt the need to call the police on the police." He is the second witness to testify he called the police on the police, after watching the encounter between Floyd and the officers at the scene.Īsked by Assistant Minnesota Attorney General Matthew Frank why he called 911 on May 25, Williams said: "I believe I witnessed a murder. "I look at that and I look at how that could have been one of them," the tearful witness said.ĭonald Williams II, a mixed martial artist who was among onlookers shouting at Derek Chauvin to get off George Floyd last May, testified Tuesday that he called the police "on the police" after paramedics took Floyd away, because he believed he had "witnessed a murder." It's what he (Chauvin) should have done."įrazier said every time she views the video of the fatal interaction, she thinks of her father, brother, cousins, uncles and friends - all Black men who could have been in the same situation that Floyd faced. "It's been nights, I stayed up apologizing and apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life," the tearful Frazier said. In an emotional high point of this two-day-old trial, Darnella Frazier could barely articulate her sorrow about witnessing Floyd as murder suspect Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck. The teenager, who recorded viral bystander video of George Floyd's death, broke down in tears on the witness stand and said she has been kept up at night, regretting that she didn't do more to possibly save his life. “I was upset because there was nothing that we could do as bystanders except watch them take this man’s life in front of our eyes," Funari told jurors.
“I saw his back foot lift off the ground and his hands go into his pocket.”įunari, who recently turned 18, said she has since avoided passing by the Cup Foods corner store so that she is not reminded of Floyd's death. “At one point I saw him put more and more weight on to him,” she said of Chauvin. "That he was dead or not breathing," Funari replied.įunari, the third of four witnesses who were minors on May 25 when they witnessed the fatal encounter between Floyd and murder suspect Derek Chauvin, said she thought Floyd was dead because "his eyes were closed and he was just laying there no longer fighting and resisting." "You kind of knew what?" asked Minnesota Assistant Attorney General Erin Eldridge. "At that point, I kind of knew," Funari said Tuesday. In emotional testimony, witness Alyssa Funari recounted her thoughts several minutes after she began taking cellphone video of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd's neck.
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