special called documentary discussions on 2 poops exploring the consequences the ball actions and inactions and showcasing ways in which so much seeking to turn the talk of the season of programming exploring the climate crisis head. on out to 0. 0. 00 there i must tell you you're watching a special coverage here of the mad a trial of derek short of and he's the former minneapolis police officer accused of killing george floyd the african-american man died off the show the knelt on his neck for more the 9 minutes after arresting him all the focus of the show even trial turns to how police are trained when it comes to using force. and in other

news to don accuses ethiopia of violating international law after days of negotiations about a major data and without progress. an attempt to revive the iran nuclear deal the main secretaries meet but no direct talks are planned between the u.s. and iran. and israel's president picks prime minister benjamin netanyahu to form a government but no party has enough support for a majority coalition. on the type of restraint used by the police officer charged with killing george freud has come under heavy scrutiny and a minneapolis course derek 7 is on trial for the matter of george floyd the african-american man died off the show and knelt on his neck for more than 9 minutes 10 and johnny macel has been testifying about how offices are trained to use minimal amount of force when arresting soft bags the prosecution focused on how

the actions were against his training and police policy. new tenant massa was asked about the position that freud was in while he was restrained and he explained why the recovery position would have been much less of a health risk. why would you roll someone into the side recovery position after they've been handcuffed and are compliant. several reasons are there but one would be to prevent a potential situation where they may be subject to positional asphyxiation and home soon as a subject to be placed into the side recovery position after they become compliant and no longer resistance when it's when the scene is called for and you're able to do it. in terms of subject safety how soon should the person be put into the site recovery position i would say sooner the better. outside that courthouse for us in minneapolis allen international cabin

a fair amount of ground there on the stand. there we're talking really about the training in the use of force i think it's accepted that there has to be a use of force by police officers in certain circumstances what the prosecution is suggesting is that the use of force went far beyond in the 20 far beyond what was necessary we had from johnny mercer saying that if you restrict the. movement of someone then you're restricting their ability to breathe and it all 'd goes down to the idea of that deadly sugar and spent 9 minutes and 29 seconds with his body weight a porn george floyd and whether or not that was enough to cause the injuries that caused the heart attack that caused his death and johnny marshall. spent a lot of times in cross-examination with the defense saying yes or to a lot of the questions one of the key points that the the defense are trying to push is that if someone becomes an response of if they have already been reasonably

violent or confrontational before the arrest if they become non-responsive is it possible they could recover consciousness and then become even more violent and that was something that jodi muscle agreed with the defense or trying to make the point that what the issue of and did was because he was concerned that george floyd might regain consciousness and be even more angry because they believe that he was using some sort of drug and therefore what he did was as a precaution not just for his safety but also for the safety of those her own dope i think what was telling me as well is that johnny mercer said that when you have force and you have the person under control that's when you should start easing things but you don't have to be fool on all the time you don't have to have your body weight on someone's back and shoulders all the type the defense are also trying to. question whether or not at any point derrick sure when i actually had his knee or george floyd's neck that is something that obviously will be

investigated if we move to the autopsy and some of the expect medical witnesses that we expect to get called at some point in the future day and while you're telling nasa wasn't the only passenger took the stand today jurors also had from sergeant kay yang a crisis intervention training coordinator with the minneapolis police department that was congress' individual in crisis symptoms and the escalation strategies then we use for interview in crisis so it's a scenario based training. that. the trainer absence association brainstem professional actors to come in and to to conduct crisis in areas where they're in a state of crisis and they are after has to use the you have to ask in strategies to bring down to pre-crisis level or to help mom. just listening to that this real

emphasis from the prosecution on their choice of witnesses around police training and policy that. these people have the expertise in those areas so you can understand why they would be very keen to call on them the defense are trying to say the dead issue of an active within the guidelines at all points what the prosecution are trying to say is look we know that there has to be a use of force we know that someone may feel the need to restrain someone who is perhaps a threat to officers but at some point that there has to be an end to the use of force and did derick should recognise with that point wars did he continue to examine that force far beyond the point that was necessary and when that happened was that what led to george floyd's death so that is what the prosecution are trying to allege at this stage clearly there's going to be more witnesses that will back up david sugarman who will say that what he did was necessary that will be for

the defense to call but the prosecution are laying out the guidelines that the police have what they are taught when they go on training courses and derek shogun was recognised by jodi merciless someone who'd been on one of his training courses about the use of force and whether or not he applied those techniques and what he'd lend or whether he went beyond that and by going beyond that acted unlawfully therefore causing the death of george floyd it's going to be a long time to build up these blocks but it paints a picture for the jury to decide when they are eventually given the direction by the judge whether or not derek chauvel acted within the terms of what he was trained to do or whether he went beyond that and with the consequences that that brought on 1st i find that trial for us outside the courthouse in minneapolis thank you so much alan let's bring in mary morrison she is the former chief public defender for hennepin county where this trial is taking place she's also

a professor at the criminal defense cannick at the university of minnesota law school and she joins us now also from minneapolis professor we were saying earlier both sides really got something out of the tenet massless testimony and really both of those arguments go to the heart of each of their cases. that that's true although as i mentioned earlier the defense asked a lot of hypothetical questions and the jury is going to have to decide whether those hypothetical questions actually match the facts in this case another important issue is that last week you had the testimony of 2 paramedics who were at the speed and both of them testified to the lay person essentially what george floyd was actually dead he did not have a heart beat he was a bleeding at the time derek shulman was still on top of him and so that i think is going to create hurdles of the defense to overcome that that dirt show that he was still doing what he was trained to do when you know they're supposed to stop with

force when the person is no longer existed in and they are supposed to render aid it was also a lot of talk today about the exact placement of mr chauvinism a on mr body and we saw some photographs around that as well how significant is that in the overall trial how is the jury going to be looking at things. the the the state make kind of a shift in its opening statement 6 rather than focusing on the coauthored artery and the fact that the need might have come off the blood supply to the brain they are focusing on positional a stick c.-a and so that really doesn't matter we are jerks ones as it doesn't have to be on the carotid artery it's just important that his weight and disney was on top of george voids when he was in the prone position in other words on his stomach with just his arms cuffed behind his back so that's what the medical testimony is going to be focused on so i'm not sure that the placement of the need is going to

be as important as we perhaps thought it was there's also the issue of the pictures that we were shown show that we were actually at the time when the paramedics were trying to remove him from george floyd and live george floyd onto the gurney there peer to be other pictures the mother eagles the do show jones in the arm his neck and perhaps the carotid but as i said positional asphyxia seems to be the route that the state is going in and so where he is needed was may not be as relevant so this presumably event will really come down to the cause of death and so we shouldn't then also presume they expect a lot more medical experts to be taking the stand in the coming days yes definitely the state has i think about 6 medical experts and we should be seeing those probably the rest of this week after today well let me ask a then past me as someone who has lived and worked in hennepin county who knows the

community there has also been involved in a trial is that how is this being received and is this trial being broadcast actually helping to build trust in the peace and justice system. you that's really interesting question and i know after the testimony of the police officers there was a lot of anger in. that what was being presented at the while was the ideal and what they experienced in that unity is not actually what's happening then i think to an extent that that's true they have the ideals and the culture change that they want . but yet people whole day to day experience something very different so i know that there is a great deal of people are happy that this blue wall of silence that people talk about does not seem to be affecting this trial has been was officers have testified and objected to it shows and did that's a good thing in this case but still we have the issue of. these policies are are

well and good but are they be followed by police every day if they're not where is the accountability mary morea to that the format change public defender for hennepin county great to have you again on al-jazeera thanks so much for being with us mary thank you oh we are covering that trial fair live here on out is there at is day 7 of the derek 7 matter trial today and we will be going back to that as soon as they resume after the lunch recess do follow us here on al-jazeera for that . i'm reading to some other news now iran says that talks aimed at reviving the 25th have been constructive officials have been meeting with the 5 major powers who a part of that agreement a delegation from the united states is also in austria for those negotiations but will not actually meet iranian officials face to face former president donald trump

you'll recall pulled the u.s. out of out of court and 2018 and impose sanctions terror on wants them lifted before it complies with the deal. we get organized we find this position realistic and promising it could be the start of correcting the bad process that is taking diplomacy to a d.d. and we welcome these comments. while different out of quetta james bay is joins us now from u.n. headquarters in new york where he's been following all of this james i see the americans on dave unable to be in the same room as the iranian so this is expected to be a long process what are we anticipating here. well certainly this is just the start of a process but i do think what has happened in the last few hours has gone about as well as it could have done now that's not because there was any sort of breakthrough and we're a long way away from that it's because there wasn't a breakdown and this is this process is going to continue remember what we've got

to try and do for both sides is get back to the 2015 iran nuclear deal that's the aim of all this but it has seriously unraveled since 2051st with president trump pulling out and piling on sanctions against iran and then with iran not complying anymore after a year with that deal increasing its enrichment bringing in advanced centrifuges so what they decided to do now after this initial meeting of indirect talks you actually had iran and most of the international community in $15.00 star hotel the grand hotel and the u.s. in another hotel the imperial hotel another 5 star hotel on the opposite side of the road with an e.u. representing representative shuttling back and forth what they've decided now is the initial plan was to divide the subjects into 2 what iran needs to do and what the u.s. has to do so one of the lists is related to sanctions the other is related to

iran's nuclear program and they're now going to go to a lower level expert level to try and go through each of those with 2 working groups in great detail the plan and then if they can get a list on both sides that both sides agree with is to basically at the same time get both countries to implement that and bring bring both into compliance with the nuclear deal it is going to still be a complicated process going through all those technical nuclear elements going through all the details of all the sanctions and designations it's estimated one estimate that. there are 1500 different searches and designation is put in place but that by the trumpet ministration jury it's 4 years so a huge task ahead and there are many back home in washington and interact only don't like any of this process is going to be difficult but there is at least now a start james bay is there for us at u.n.

headquarters where he's following things for us thanks so much james well speaking of iran as a bag is in terror on with just what iran is asking for so far iran are sticking to their guns they want all sanctions lifted and very fired by the country before they even begin to reverse any measures taken in their nuclear program they've also ruled out suspending the 20 percent uranium enrichment in exchange for $1000000000.00 of iranian money blocked outside the country because of u.s. sanctions iranian negotiators have said talks in vienna are constructive and a step in the right direction but there's still a long way to go iran feels it has suffered greatly under sanctions imposed by former u.s. president donald trump sanctions that are still in place under joe biden's administration meanwhile here in iran the parliament is dominated by lawmakers who were never for the deal in the 1st place the government here would like to salvage the deal before they leave office later this year and come through on their promise of getting u.s. sanctions lifted but the political establishment here has a deep mistrust of the united states and i know hard to come to an agreement

especially as they feel u.s. policies have failed and iran is in a stronger position than it was a few years ago the u.s. may need to be seen as the one that can see its before iran begins to reverse its nuclear program a nuclear program that is clearly troubling for the united states and the europeans . well into another set of talks now and tensions are deepening here appears mega dam with sudan accusing it of breaking international law that's after 2 days of talks between ethiopia sudan and egypt all failed to reach an agreement if europe has built the grand renaissance stand to produce electricity but its neighbors feral impact their water supply and the morgan is in concert with more so than is thing that would if europe is trying to do is try to impose reality on the 3 countries especially sudan in egypt it says that the rounds of talks have produced no breakthrough they've been holding talks for 3 days that effectively it was set to end on monday which resumed on tuesday morning as the 3 sides entered closed

meetings to try to iron out the differences the main difference over this whole round of talks that was taking place in is that sudan and egypt wants the mediation team to expand to include the united states the u.n. and the european union that is something if european has strongly rejected and said that the the mediator of the talks between the 3 sides should remain the african union alone because they say that they believe african solutions to african problems now the 3 sides have failed to reach a deal despite those few talks a few days of talks so it looks like they've tried as much as they can but now sudan is saying that what ethiope if your peers doing is violating international laws it's trying to impose their reality on the ground without reaching a deal and they say that that's a violation not just international laws but the declaration of principles that was signed between the 3 countries in 2015 before the killing of the crime if you print renaissance fam. the death toll from days of fighting in sudan's west darfur region

has risen to 50 another 150 people will so injured in battles between members of the arab raise it got and tribes and began on saturday when an armed man killed 2 people from the muscle that he won peacekeepers withdrew from that area in december off to a peace deal between the government and those 2 armed groups while israel's president has asked prime minister benjamin netanyahu to try to form a new government even though he believes that no candidate has a real chance of actually finalizing a coalition riven rivlin has been holding consultations with their school parties after the 4th inconclusive election in 2 years he said national who's likud party was in a slightly better position than even the national who is on trial for corruption rivlin said he doesn't have the power to rule them out well al jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashara says they're all competing political ambitions involved here. they've been playing musical chairs and inch and you know every time

that one stops and usually the tune it's like the it's the to play it's it is the author of the possible someone is left standing and leaves the scene and nothing else will always somehow grabs his chair the main chair so once again we are in the process of a musical chair game in israel and the main reason for that the main reason for the 4 elections is benjamin netanyahu his insistence on maintaining his leadership in israel because he doesn't only have political ambition he also has the personal ambition of protecting themselves from prosecution otherwise what we have today in israel is stupid tension coalitions and both of them and right wing or extreme right wing coalition both of them don't give a damn about what's happening next door in the occupied territories where some 4

and a half 1000000 palestinians fights many palestinians have been under occupation for the past over 5 decades so it's certainly that palestinian issue is not an issue in those correlation forming exercises and is read the real issues are more religious more personal more. of certain politicians trying to gain power within the country and that's why we might see a 5th election coming because the national security of the country is not at stake it's the national ambition of political heads that is at stake. well now the palestinian election board has approved $36.00 candidates to run in next month's parliamentary elections and the 1st such poll and 15 is the vote is said to be part of an effort by the cheerleading groups fatah and hamas to boost international support for palestinian governance reports. iraq heard number of palestinians

are running in parliamentary elections scheduled for may some say it shows how eager people are for elections and all those argue it highlights his deep divide in palestinian politics members of fatah the ruling party in the occupied west bank are running on 3 different lists the official one and another backed by the ousted further strongman plan the 3rd is a joint list how did the boy form or for the leader called with him back by marwan but a popular front to leader serving multiple life sentences in prison in israel. road is a member of the list and says it took courage to challenge the status quo we cannot continue to be part of a system that is failing itself and the people at the same time and now with the elections. on the horizon this is the right avenue for positive change

how mass the party ruling the gaza strip has registered its list of the left parties and activists are running on more than their teeth different lists this legislative council has been dysfunctional so it's fair to have a split in 2007 now in february they both agreed to hold elections but some past indians are concerned that the agreement is more about sharing the electoral party there it is about reviving democracy. active from 1906 until 2007 the parliament passed fewer than 100 pieces of legislation since then president mahmoud abbas has issued more than 300 laws by decree he concentrated the power of lawmaking and executive branch in his own hand law making process during the absence of the parliament was. not clear this thought grip on power has

limited political activism. now he thinks the elections are a chance to change that he's part of a youth group called jed encouraging palestinians to run not in the actual elections but virtual ones young palestinians have been disenfranchised from their power from their political system for the last 15 years if not more and now when elections were announced laws in the system was put into place to exclude them again and so they're frustrated it's still not certain the elections will take place israel has said it want to allow them to be held in jerusalem and the palestinian authority says there can be no will actions without jerusalem. brahim. the occupied west bank now after a year anti-government protests across india the governing beijing appear there is facing a big test at the polls voting is underway on what's considered the most significant day in assembly elections in 4 states and a union territory they are being seen as

a measure of support for prime minister narendra modi's b j p and although it's performed strongly in national elections the party has struggled to win majorities in state assemblies and is withdrawn and has more now from new delhi. well we have the full states of west bengal. and the union territory of go into the polls all of these regions are outside the j.p.s. traditional base in the speaking northern and central states to have these speaking heartland as it's known and that is why these elections are recruiting crucial for the b j p to try and get a foothold in the east northeast and in southern india and they have put everything into these elections especially in the state of west bengal with never being in power there also never been power and in fact from the regions going to the polls today that the g.o.p. is currently only in power and it is expected to be reelected there but it is

facing one of the most in west bengal all is facing one of the state's most popular powerful leaders month advantage he has been in power there for 10 years she's also one of prime minister in that in the most vocal critics and the fight for west bengal has been the most noteworthy of this all of these elections that has been mobbed both the campaign and the voting itself by violence by rival groups physically attacking each other and month abana g. the chief minister has been campaigning from a wheelchair for the past 3 weeks after she said she was attacked by an unknown group of people and that has really set the tone for the campaign there. italy's prime minister has become the latest european data trying to boost ties with libya's new interim government mario draghi is in tripoli for his 1st overseas visit since taking office he said it was time for the 2 countries to rebuild their friendship and also underline the importance of respecting a ceasefire that was signed last october draggy praised the new government's

efforts to curb the number of migrants fleeing to your. jill of all days is the answer. we want to think and return the cultural and economic interchange with libya to the level that was at 5678 years ago and in that sense our conversation today assures me that we want to actually overtake that level in other words we want to make this partnership a guide for the future of the faults of primitive libya. 118 people have been confirmed dead in the flash floods and landslides in indonesia and east timor more than 100 others are still missing tarantula rains were triggered by a passing cycler and now as conditions begin to improve rescue workers are trying to reach communities still a need for washington reports. on a community tries to come to terms with the devastation that hit their island as victims are pulled from the mud people crowd around to see whether it's their loved

one that has been found many have been unable to contact family and friends and hundreds of houses that were destroyed everyone here has no choice but to start again. from where did everything i could not save anything everything is gone i could only save myself the small island in east flores was among the worst affected in the weekend's flash floods and landslides and whatever we got hit by this disaster we lost everything all we have are the clothes we are wearing. extreme weather was brought on by a tropical cyclone as the storm system moves further away from the indonesian archipelago conditions easing the thought is hope they will be able to bring in more help for the island i don't get up in the for the sake of it i mean what we need the most is heavy machinery we have been asking for it from day one but we know that some of the roads were cut off because of the disaster on the sea was rough so we weren't able to bring it in time. to get some aid has arrived and the

local government set up a public kitchen to help feed the community but around the province people need more food water facemasks and i'll resend shills for them but for a lot together with the military i'm social ministry we are working in moving to show you that we are here and helping people. in neighboring east timor the capital dili experienced it's worth floods in decades rescue crews are desperately trying to reach those most in need in remote areas and informal settlements but conditions are challenging many. roads. bridges have also. been destroyed. of course most pretty much every day. and these actually.

hundreds of people across both countries are now facing a huge cleanup operation while still anxiously waiting for news of those who remain missing jessica washington al jazeera jakarta. also the coronavirus pandemic pakistan as reporting a record 103 covered 19 deaths just in the past 24 hours and factions there have risen sharply with more than 19000 cases in april or in an effort to contain the spread of the virus the government has expanded the possible locked out of high risk areas and prime minister iran can is also warning of nationwide restrictions frontline health care workers and senior citizens are currently being vaccinated to has more from a smile about. standard in the midst of a toward more dangerous wave of the corona wired in the month of april alone 90.

3 d. for over a 100 people have been which makes their diet. their national come on don't offer to. remain closed until the end of ramadan. to go back to school on the 9th of april really mean. however. the or and. in the month of may the pakistani prime minister had already warned that people must take this very seriously otherwise the government will have no other option but to enforce stricter restriction it is also important in order the planning minister had that up to a 1000000 people have received the. biologics rag which i've been given by china but they're all out of the vaccine program is ready august on a population of over 200000000 and really need

a substantial number of vaccines in order to write. well that's now taking it to a vaccination site in alexandria virginia when she was president joe biden has been visiting just in the last few minutes he's expected to make an announcement on cousin 19 in the next few hours now you were manned by isn't such a goal of delivering 100000000 shots in his fast 100 days in office the end of april he since double that goal to 200. let's now take you back trust special coverage of derek chauvinist murder trial in the u.s. as you recall the former police officer is accused of killing george lloyd by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds this is day 7 of the trial of the proceedings in the city of minneapolis let's listen in there just resuming after their lunch recess.

these were. just. prefer that you take your mask off. before. if you could begin by giving us your full name spelling each of your. people mckenzie and i see only last name we can see i'm a c k e m z i e 03 you know afternoon how are you employed by the minneapolis police department home mom have you been playing at least part about 6 years what is your

current role there i am i have a police officer you know do you have a specific duty assignment i do all the medicals for courtney or for the apartment right now before we talk about that role i'd like you to share a little bit about yourself with the jury home long and have you been a police officer for i am going to law enforcement for about 6 years all that whole time with the minneapolis police department did you have a career prior to going into law which i did yes i worked in human resources what's your educational background i have an associates degree in human resources i have a bachelor's degree in business i am an e.m.t. i also have my a law enforcement circuits and i'm also me i'm our instructor you were did human resources that was your original plan correct along if you want to be a police officer actually it's something i have always wanted to do you just kind of talk myself out about her one way or another but eventually found her way back.

can you please or tell the jury how you entered law enforce to go through you can i did yes i came in as a cadet which means that the department sponsors the education components that make you eligible for the post exam in the state of minnesota. and hold one program was that. i would say i think it was about 9 months total after you completed the use the in class of the classroom portion of the academy to go through field training i did how long was that process training that time was a follow 5 and a half 6 months. is an officer with a minneapolis police department are you familiar familiar with some of the officers who also work part time are you familiar with the name derek showing him how are

you familiar with that name. he was actually one of my fellow enough for one day while i was on of my i think i have to heal the sick but also he's attended by training but conducted the department all right and would you recognize him if you sign yes do you see him in the courtroom today yes or would you please point to him describe where the gentleman here in the light gray suit right made the record reflect the witness is identified the defendant and. it we'll. you indicated that you're the medical support corps sorry yes sir could you please describe for the jury what that role to it's certainly. there's a couple different components to it primarily it's going to be the 1st state education that all of the officers receive you. do the training for the academy both the recruits and the cadets as well as the the service which is more like the

continuing for all the current officers and i am also in administer of the program that we have which is the narcan program and are going to room it is the training and administration the. pharmaceutical to use to temporarily reduce opiate overdoses and use nor can i said something that officers have a feel will to know yes or no and you provide specific training regarding the use of dark citing. also if you provide medical training both cademy and. correct are you familiar with the requirements from the department of the post requirements for how often officers are supposed to train. medical procedures you know with the minnesota post board when you're able to apply for the examination you do have to have your m.r. certification and that's emergency medical responder. beyond that the post war

doesn't require them terribly specific but with the minneapolis police department we do continuing education every year on medical related topics. in the post war doesn't require anything more specific can you explain. with their educational requirements 1st the continuing to add as long as you've met the minimum number of hours there are certain topics that they require you to complete other ones because it with me ample space for we go up. beyond what the post work requires. so that when we get out and extra medical training you do that every year when you are of police officers required to have specific c.p.r. . card no on you're not required to have doubts beyond your initial post certification. when your initial post certified you were correct and that's a part of me you are certain that's required to be eligible to take the post exam

in some officers will continue to. c.p.r. cards that right carets you know what is required in order to obtain a car it's about a 4 hour class there is a written test and a skills examination test out and what does it cover. if it includes adult c.p.r. and 80 infant c.p.r. 80 as well as choking. you know at this time likely to display to the witness not to the jury exhibit 277 for jennifer. if you 2 can look at what's been marked for going to pick you should see exhibit 277 does that appear to be an american heart association c.p.r. car correct yes is that the type of card you should if you complete the 4 hour course you just mention yes well it's not required some officers continue. those cards or miti to the records of the office fleeced for if they had taken full

course through the minneapolis police department we would be the record holder all right. then if we could take a look at exhibit 278. that also appeared to be a c.p.r. car just a different you're correct you know offer exhibits to 77 to 70. 3 of them is that into so many areas and if we could publish exhibit $277.00. highly portions just appear to be. children 3. march 2012 march 2014 current. and if we can exhibit 278. of guinness c.p.r. card issued to the defendant from january 24th to january 26th that's correct.

and then when you provide training medical training to law enforcement officers does that training get reported into the workforce system to be able to report to the post. you know how did you start personally delivering straight i've been a part time instructor since 2017 and i assume the full time position january of 2020. how many times do you think that you've provided this training this interview has trained law enforcement officers. specifically yes.

i would say you know ports of 20 to 30 seconds right and i do use a slide deck or a powerpoint to do your medical presentation every year would you if i can show you exhibit 111 just to the witness not to the jury. exhibit 111 do you recognize appears to be the 1st part of a slide yes and if we can turn a 2nd. 111 percent if you have. m.p.c. p.r. . all right could you deliver personally delivered the slide deck before i have approximately how many times. this was in service of 2019 and my best estimation this was probably carried out over the course of maybe. 12 sessions or so $12.00 to $15.00 sessions i was responsible for about a 3rd of. the defendant attend any of your sessions. i'm not sure but you were

providing the block of training that everyone consistently took back in the in-service training team that was is this time instructor here and i ran one of the skill stations so they were that we had already from the part that would have come through my skills on some point no. at this time if i can you can take that down here i would offer exhibit want to lead them. into. one of them as it was. in general terms that he provided the jury an overview of the specific medical training that you provide to law enforcement officers basis for in service physically for in service. we do offer a wide variety of different countries depending on how many transactions are going to be available to us in a year but at a minimum every year we are touching on c.p.r. and they do you and then an alternate years we're also going over rehearse

a class on our cam and that's the minimum standard if we have more training spots available to us we can and then work fossils and didn't know you we're with minneapolis police department has a specific policy regarding rendering of emergency we do and could you please provide the jury high level overview of what the policy requires certainly a high level summary of our stated. policy is going to be. requesting in most resources to anybody that needs it or anybody who requested it also rather infer stable. consistent with your training received and does the policy allow you to do one or the other just call for new ones not do you merge and procedures. it depends on the situation specifically if there is really no need for an immediate 1st day it may be like

a small cut or abrasion you know it would be then appropriate to just wait for a bus arrive but if it's a critical situation you know there's you have to do both i'd like you know to kind of walk us through some of the specific training you provide use exhibit one a level to do so if you could publish exhibit 111. starting at peach 6. well let's go back to page one. what do you explain page one of this ok so this is an image of a clip that's taken from the classic movie dumb and dumber. and this is a video clip that we show at the very beginning of training it's more or less just kind of a lighthearted way to get people more engaged in the class. you know as that's substantive slight and no absolutely not all right you know i'd like to the

cover has something to force if you go to 6 to review the portion a slight that's as. you please describe the jury each of these different portions of training that you provide certainly. so this block of training was primarily focused on c.p.r. but we did throw in a couple of extra piece of information because we have the time available to us so we're just kind of briefly we touched on other things we had you know had already taught which was tactical combat casualty care. that's basically rendering aid for more traumatic injuries you will then we also brought in updates on our nor can program as far as you say and maybe things we have learned since we had initially get rolled out and the remainder of the time was focused on the full c.p.r. course right. if you could go to. peach 21 of exhibit 111.

and for the jury would you please describe using the slaves can walk us through what specific training you provide. as it pertains to c.p.r. . when you were called to a scene where there is some kind of medical situation going on maybe it's illness or injury or whatever happens to be you know we have a little bit of a pneumonic that we're going to walk through to make sure that we're covering all the basics so when you're encountering somebody. that appears to be unconscious we start with an acronym that's called out who. you are we walk through that acronym to determine a level of responsiveness and then we work through the eighty's and see the switches airway breathing and circulation. i'd like you to the next please go to the next 22. who could you please walk the jury through this assessment tool for mine. so when you're determining something is level response of notes you

kind of walk through this is your model to see where they land so if somebody is alert that means that you know is there as i walk into the room like they may spontaneously look at me i determine that person's alert well i don't really need to go any further. verbal would be you know maybe just kind of yelling for it somebody you're trying to get their attention something like that see if they're respond to verbal stimuli. and if you don't get a response there then you move on to the you which is pay him. and that's going to be it like. something like for instance you know if you like the bass the fingernail kind of pressed against it and we just went looking for any kind of like response that somebody would like normal that pull away from. we're certainly not talking about anything that would you know cause any injury per se but just a little pain stimulus see if they can pull wait me or something like that. and if they don't respond then you determine that person is the response of i'd like to

talk about it to have you talk about the key the pee in full steam you know i really think it sounds like you know the assessment tool when the person who's doing training is doing is going to apply a stimulus to see if the person. that's correct is it possible to determine someone's level of responsiveness without intentionally. or should say without inflicting pain for the purpose of checking stimuli so for example just observing whether the person is continuing to react to some kind of peaceful stimulus. you are grace i'm sure if someone you know if you came upon an individual who was injured for example and crying out or america festing some sort of penis or. salt of the injury but at some point they stop being verbal they stop responding to that pain could that potentially be a sign of not response yes. once

you determine an individual is unresponsive what do you do. then you walk through the next set of acronyms which is going to be your eighty's and see if you could return to 21 please. and he b.'s and cs that's your way 3 thing circulation for art. and if you could go to page 23. can you please describe to the jury what you train officers to do based on this slide with an exhibit 111 and certainly after you determine their level of responsiveness of their own responsive you're going to 1st address their airway and and that means just putting them in the most ideal physical position where their airway can be as most in alignment as possible. then what's next. tilting up the head slightly so that they are but there is

a head tilt. maneuver to open up their airway and then the next up beyond that is moving into checking for breathing and if you don't see your chest rise it's just a matter of putting a hand on the center of the chest and see if there's an air moving up and down right and then what's the next to last in circulation so that's going to be checking a carotid holes what is your area but i'll are there are other places that officers are trained to use to check for a pulse so i crowd you can absolutely can you know use your radio hear your roasts there is multiple points on your body where you can track them but this is by far and away the most important. in our officers trained to do if they are unable to find a pulse if you don't have a pulse on a person you will immediately start c.p.r. . you know i want to go back to the concept of checking for breathing

you can look for the chest rising and falling to every. yes yes all right. do you train officers. just training you train officers that if a person can talk that they can brief notes or. why not what they would be incomplete to say because there is possible you know there is a possibility that somebody could be a respiratory distress and still be unable to is it just because there are speaking doesn't mean they're breathing adequately. all right. getting back to circulation you indicated that if the officer cannot find a pulse there to start c.p.r. says correct in describing what is done to start c.p.r. social start c.p.r. if you're going to be starting out if you haven't already contacted you know mouse to get them and you would do that immediately then it's a matter of just walking your fingers and you go center of the chest and then you

push down about a 3rd of a doubt on the person at the rate of about $100.00 beats per minute. is this something that again getting back to the m.p.t. policy that the officers train that they're required to do while they're waiting for you yes. when is the officer supposed to stop c.p.r. when you have been relieved by somebody with a higher level of training than you more of maybe if there was some obvious signs of death or if you're just if you've been doing it for a while if you were absolutely just physically exhausted from doing c.p.r. if you could just huge 27 the exhibit. in officers are specifically trained on this is that right correct can be and when the subject becomes responsible wakes up right or someone else takes over or

as you stated it's not safe or you're physically can't do it or else and is this consistent then with the training that you provide every year to each and every modern force an officer who is recorded as having taken the strain injury service yes. all right i have nothing further if you have as you know.

well we've just been hearing there from nicole mckenzie she's a medical support coordinator at the minneapolis police department she's also one of the officers in charge of conducting training for in service officers including including derrick shaven on medical response and emergency fast aid including as you were just hearing there how to perform c.p.r. we've been hearing questioning there from the prosecution they've rested and their initial questioning and we do expect cross-examination to begin very shortly we can see there the defense preparing to to then begin that questioning now to remind you if you are just joining us this is day 7 of the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek sheridan he's facing charges including 2nd degree murder after he knelt on george floyd's neck for nearly 9 and a half minutes last may there has been a real emphasis here by the prosecution on how mr sharon's actions were against his training and general police policy from

a number of different witnesses today including a use of force officer who recently just testified before and ms mckenzie and we also had earlier on from a crisis intervention trainer so we are getting a real overview here on what officers are taught to do and what the what the policies are in place that they are supposed to be following now the defense throughout their questioning today has appeared to be trying to paint a picture of how stressful the situation may have been for the officers involved who are called to the scene and how things may look bad device standards but could still be allowed and revolve easily heard from both sides today and i believe that the defense cross-examination of miss mackenzie is about to begin let's listen.

all right i think i'm ready now thank you for joining us today just a few follow up questions you have been with the minneapolis police department for 6 years at this point correct and prior to that you you said you were an e.m.t. as well right correct now as far as the minneapolis police department is concerned . there are officers are trained is essentially 1st responders cracked correct with the e.m.r. certification see medical response and so it's sort of a it's a lower level of medical training correct that. right so you may go to a c.p.r. class then you have your 1st responder and then an e.m.t. paramedic correct and that would be

a natural progression and so you have experience did you work as an e.m.t. as well as. i did ok and so you have experience both as a police officer as well as an e.m.t. draw right now you testified that part of your role now is running a medical program is to present officers with information as to multiple medical issues that they may encounter correct it's not just limited to 1st aid or 1st responder you know c.p.r. types you know are we also if you take wellness classes whether it's sleep. we have oh. ok and you have classes on topics including excited delirium correct and you have topics including the administration of nar can correct and officers are all minneapolis police officers permitted to carry can assume you've had the training yes and do all minneapolis police officers receive that tree yes and so

some of these medical topics at these continue and education classes they may come up an hour here are a half hour there during an in-service right. depends on the topic yes so the e.m.r. stuff is kind of a stand alone class there may be that that's a longer class right correct that does the basically your initial that will fight you. carry your car to get a 00 for him that's about a 40 hour class and then you have refresher classes on that stuff as well correct it will contain many of the same topics but the man plus police department doesn't require officers to keep their even our certification. are and so the certification that we saw mr show had expiring in 2016 i believe that was c.p.r. c.p.r. and are they are officers required to then have c.p.r.

every 2 years after that we do c.p.r. costs on a rotating basis so every other year they go through c.p.r. are now i would like to talk to you about a couple of the minneapolis policies you could. say there's a centrally to minneapolis police policies that deal with emergency medical response correct perhaps one being after use of force correct.