outfitted with a body worn camera yes or do you have a partner in the time one of the 3 the sergeants that are on that ship though but no partner are you assigned a car. when you ride and you're right solo yes or. no . as a minneapolis police officer cited a certification that you're familiar with very curious when you have to ask police department policy is that right yes or and is part of that in addition to all of the policies that have been introduced to focus on that. critical incident response right. now when we are looking back to may 2020 your supervising dot watching you working at maybe 252000. when you recall getting your shift. shift our shift

started at 2030 hours which is 8 30 pm what's the 1st thing you do when you start shift 1st thing i do is conduct roll call with my officers describe the roll call faults. basically attendance making sure all of their buddies they're counting for are ready to work. it's a time repass along certain information. about what has gone on during the day or maybe what. crime patterns and things to be aware of and if the officers have anything that you know needs to be brought to the table they can as well. with me giving the officers their squad assignments and sending them on their way so that they can start answering 911 calls and do you typically receive information

from previous shifts that you can pass it along to the officers you're sending out of your shift the sometimes. sometimes you're generally familiar with the officers that you personally supervise. yes. and other officers within the 3rd precinct. are not familiar with other officers the 3rd precinct not are not necessarily i who are specific oh yes yes. are you familiar with an individual any show that not personally but i do know who he is. do you believe you recognize him if you saw him that salute you see him in a courtroom today. would you please point to him. thank you your honor may the record reflect of the witnesses they get a 5 defendant. how do you know him. like i said i don't know him personally we worked out of the same building but we

worked on different shifts and i was in his direct supervisor sort of a name and face recognition would never socialized outside of work. the lawyer with an officer to tout yes i know who he is is it the same you know basically the same type of relationship this found that yes we worked out of the same building but we were on different ships and thomas lane. how would you describe your relationship with thomas lee. he was also on the midwatch if thomas lang did do a rotation when they were new. on my ship and i believe he was on my shift for long when he was think it was probably his 2nd month. your interaction with him outside of work so also. alexander king him as well same relation

he and. officer langer both. on my shift for nearly a month and i believe that was is also his 2nd month of. being on the job so it might as well they're on their old station they rotate between different shifts thank you i'd like to bring you back to that roll call. data question did you receive a telephone call around roll call time. i believe the phone call was shortly. just as concluded yes who is that phone call from i received a phone call from sergeant kluger who was the midwatch sergeant. do you recall what sergeant or let me back up did sergeant give you information you

relied upon to take further steps in your duties that i yes. what did sergeant hooter tell you. surgeon who informed me that he was at the hospital at that time and he was with a male that he described may or may not live. later on the night i found out that mail was mr floyd. he said he was down there at the hospital he asked me if i would be willing to respond to. the instant location of 30 inches hole. because he was tired of hospital at the time he asked me if i would respond down there just to make sure just in case we had to secure the area and make contact with any of his officers that were were there on scene so because this was a had the potential to be

a possible critical and can you describe what you mean by critical it's. usually an instant and then also involve incident where. the officer or somebody else as di or somebody else says suffer great bodily harm that later lead to death. and based on your knowledge of minneapolis police department policy what is supposed to happen if there's a critical incident with the crime scene and with the participants. and the crime scene is. supposed to be secured. which means lie down. and that is for the purpose to preserve any evidence that is there. the involved parties or the involved officers usually. or children in

a waiting for sergeants escorted to and in every room downtown. program notifications are made. a. homicide if you will there ministration. the area is canvassed which just means. there's a dozen native amount of officers that are searching the area looking for any witnesses that can give a synopsis of what they saw. and then. we wait for the investigators to get there or $21.00. pretty much wait for further information from some of the superiors do you. take any steps with respect to body war cameras those are active actually. what do you

make sure that it ensure that everybody's biting on cameras are active in running at all times. in this specific case did you take steps consistent with the procedures you just why. yes when i arrived on scene yes. this sounded like to publish exhibit why. after you got off the phone with search did you go directly to 30th in chicago i told her that i didn't mind going down there as that together some of my things and then i head down there so. i believe i got down there. $238.00 in chicago at about 9 35 pm. and hire other. where you were if your body were a camera yes. it was activated yes please describe the scene as you

recall it when you arrived. 30 days in chicago so it's kind of a high profile area. 30 the street and chicago avenue are both major thoroughfares insult me at. i want i arrived. the only people that were there were all young in lang it seemed more than very many other people around there are there. and he indicated that your body your camera was activated prior to testify today you had. to review various still photographs taken from the footage of your body work. yes and at this time your honor i'm going to offer exhibits 81 through 95 which are images taken from. us sergeant edwards body or camera and it was an.

easy walk through 95 inclusive are received. and you have a kid in that officers king lane were at the scene you're right i did publish exhibit one. do you recognize the individuals in this photograph exhibit what i do. is the center that will it's officer lane. where this saucer came up. and you told the jury what you know reaction. when you arrived. when i arrived there o's met by officer king 1st 1st thing i did was i told him hey if you're buying more cameras not on turn it on now he did. also laying came up the car.

so the words told the same thing to him and he activated his body want him right so lane was initially sitting in the car do you know what car his squad are on that's it you are there is at $320.00. sure. is that a squad car sites that sector with other recent middle watch one. after you instructed both officers to act leader make sure their bodywork camera was activated to tell them anything else they need to do. ask them where they had interaction with mr floyd extolled and that they interacted with him. on the sidewalk air by their squad car they also told me they interacted with them. on chicago avenue. right in front of the cup food store

and these done statements that did you direct them to. place classy tape around the area to say yes so with that information i was able to gather where the incident occurred struct of them to place crime scene tape around the area so that we could preserve any intentional it was that was there 1st i'm going to ask the publishers of easy to. write what do you see in this photograph. it appears to be officer came putting up crime scene tape publish exhibit one. you have one of these up there stylus. if you can use that to just roughly. that will show where the cracks split up generally ok so generally.

there is why are was right here at the time. this is different there's no i was here mr floyd's vehicle was was right here. i had them encompassed this whole area so crime scene tape was. around that whole intersection encompass. the entire intersection at the time we were having to do this with any other officers syria tyrant's just came away. at that time. i believe it was my sofa king in lane but i had other officers from my shift respond to the area as i knew we were going to probably have to lock down that area so you have asked the other officers that that was something that was

raised before known at the purpose for additional officers. oh i'm sorry. all right and that was for the specific purpose of keeping the area secure yes sir. if you would clear that you're. and in some point did you learn that this in fact was a critical incident. later on in the night yes but you were taking steps to secure the scene as if it were going to be critical incident before that yes or. no at this point did you really know anything about what had happened that caused you to call out there specifically no i didn't know i didn't know specifics. you know at that point i had and very little specifics 1st i was waiting for more phone calls

from. hoover for more direction of what was going on for exactly you didn't know that if it wasn't all that point is that right. you had a brief interaction in conversation with kagan way is that right. yes based on that what they told you you took some additional steps were you able to communicate with the other officers that you directed to come to the seeds that provide them direction yes what did you ask the other officers. a number of the officers i asked to canvass the area as i explained before that just means. pretty much the old order door see if there's any potential witnesses that may have been there when the incident a courier and. chain of snob says of what they saw and

to get their name information. is just searching for any potential witnesses and getting their story if we could publish exhibit 83. another image from your body were a camera you see some of the other officers from your shift to you call to help you with the see you sir i asked you to stay down if i saw the folks in the picture will start. here was that saucer lane. and this individual. this person stops or kate. this person. and this person. and officer ariel that was a fairly new officer at the time yes or.

no would you please tell the jury just sort of the scope of the security you provided to this scene at that time it was the early morning hours now of may 26th is that right. yes or what did you do. shortly thereafter here i received a call from who were telling me that escort officers arrest or sergeants would be coming down and that. he was still downtown at the hospital i notified in appropriate people ministration and we notified him. he just requested that the scene just remained secure so in answer to your question we. my guys and i just remain there for scene security to ensure that no vehicle or

pedestrian traffic i mean sure the crime scene and contaminated are arcing to make sure no one came in to that roped off area s. did you take any steps with respect to the business cut foods for what you. were asked me if i was able to make contact with the manager and if so speak with him which i did how many officers at any given time were used to secure the scene. i believe that night i only had a. you need to turn officers on. and i didn't have every single one of my officers on the scene there were still a lot of 911 calls that. needed to be attended to. in addition to securing the perimeter of the scene to do security vehicles within

the city yes sir what vehicles did use your. oh cers king in lang's florida as well as a vehicle that was parked at others could you describe the vehicle please i honestly don't remember what kind of vehicle for it was driving. it was a dark colored vehicle. i remember correctly. did you keep officers king of plane out of the squad 320 yes i did and i told them to leave their belongings inside as for her. at this time i'd like to publish it easy for. the exhibit $84.00 then for the record is a. photo from your body work camera taken at 2150 and 17 seconds is that right. yes we see.

wealth king every lane in the photo correct yes all right. is this where you had he national interaction with them where you asked them to get out of the good security that is and they complied with what they did did you see anyone including not take anything out of the vehicle no. was the vehicle running or had it been stopped it was running. what did you do since it was running. i told them to get out of the car. they got out of it did you at any point stop the vehicle for. that wasn't until. the b.c. a shoulder and we have those special agent mike phil. told me that they're going to take custody of the squad in mr floyd's vehicle we

noticed the vehicle we know squatter i'm sorry was still running so instructing you to power down. you'd also mention something about a canvas did you at some point instruct officers to do a canvas of your ear for possible witnesses. explain that yes. what you know since you didn't know much about what happened what were you asking officers to look for. you know anybody that may have been in the area at the time that the incident occurred or you know we knew that the incident occurred before we got to work so. you know i guess we're is trying to get lucky maybe there was somebody stole there. that was wounded talked to us. or. you know. who did you send out to do the canvass.

that included the. ruling. we located any witnesses who were willing to speak with. what was a did they locate any witnesses who were willing to speak with whom to speak with me yes no. did you have any point interact with an elderly or older gentleman say overly older gentleman f. a c. yes did he identify himself to you 1st or last name. charles refused to give you his name is full name the publishers of east. it's another body worn camera him. not from your body of work but it shows. that's. it is this charles. the best point captures the

conversation that you had with him a 22 all 5 and about 43 seconds is that right yes or. he did not provide information. no he did not want you to him that you did. to us if you had something to say or if you saw something. he. told me or fused the . same thing in the. morning if you was under arrest and i told him no he told me he wanted to weave and course you didn't know whether or not he had spoken with anybody already about this 1st on the scene. did you ask the lane to participate in the canvass. not only waited what did you do. i asked them to show up.

because they are on a new roof from including that he had a sergeant's coming down to transform into interview room $100.00 publish exhibit. 5. right looking at exhibit 85 from your body were a camera 215125 you see officers wade and king where they stand where he told them to stand waiting where he told the wait correct . and at this time he would strike of them to keep their body work errors activated right correct. you recall speaking with any other potential witness while you see. tomorrow do you recall entering.

yes yes speak with anybody a cup foods yes. like i said before. yesterday to see if i could make contact with the manager there foods and i did and i spoke with him i wish the city sex. right this is an image from your camera at 215432 seconds who is that it will. i do not remember his name but he is the manager there approves. and how did you learn whether or not he was a witness to the interaction between the police george. he said he didn't witness anything. i believe over station. when you arrive and you testified you'd taken control of this right as the sergeant

you were the ranking officer there. at some point did another ranking officer arrive at the scene. yes. zimmerman from home side or right at the scene shortly after as well as. a certain day i'll. publish you so that each. eye i know it that's a little hard to see can you identify the people in this. clip so much so often as the internet some of. when it here right approximately. oh. when did he arrive approximately yes i can tell you the time you're right i can tell you the time stamp and him seem rather 2206 all right. 10

o 6 pm so even if not exact arrival time this is pretty close in time to turn summons 1st arrival. right when lieutenant zimmerman arrived at what happened with the scene. he came in just ensured that we had the scene. secure came in church. we had officers that were canvassing the area for any potential witnesses that were still there. and. we did you see lieutenant zimmerman interact with all officers later. and i don't recall seeing him interact with women or king. did you in my heart or to lieutenant zimmerman any information that you had. gathered about the scene or

potential witnesses to that point. can you give us a question again sure did you tell lieutenant zimmerman what he is up to that point to you you know caught up on the scene witnesses what steps that did oh yes or did he direct you to take any further steps. now he's a long time i suppose more canvassing of the area and also he one of the more officers there seem to be confirmed at the scene itself was secured and of the squad was secured $320.00 yes. mr floyd's vehicle secured yes. so there was another officer there a sergeant deal with a spot you know listening to. he was there a game with zimmerman but deals from homicide is that right i believe so and then

with this being a critical incident this was going to be handed over to the bureau of criminal apprehension record. while. we still didn't know this was indeed a critical incident but. we were. i was going under the assumption that it was. you know it's better safe to go that way than not. as that because of that there are some steps taken to ensure that when this was handed off it can often a matter of a tick tick in over with correct yes so it was a did either deal or zimmer. make a suggestion to you about having a privacy. yes or no what do they ask for. a just as a crime scene log even started my test. with that test crime scene was just

a lot of names of officers and personnel that enter the crime scene and did you see officer areola start compiling a crime scene yes the publish exhibit 89. you can see this officer ariel here. yes and he appears to be holding something so right. yes that the crime scene mug. i believe so. so if you testified at some point you heard that mr floyd had died correct. yes. and. do you recall how you received that which.

was later on in the night sergeant dale actually informed me that he.