being questioned at the moment as i said earlier is donna williams who witnessed the killing of george floyd he called 911 he said he witnessed a murder. he is currently well he was being cross-examined by the defense who were attempting to paint him as being a very angry man they had to get the audio quite a lot for a lot of the expletives that we used at the time trying to suggest that he was getting angry and angry at the police and that that was in part to do with race. donald williams being a black american as well a redirect is now happening where the prosecution is questioning him again and the whole process unfolding in real time for us out of the courtroom in minneapolis a very different sort of look you can see the masks on the faces the post pics closs up between people as well the judicial system in the times of covert 19 day 2 of. trial for 2nd degree murder 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter. and what i'll do is while this is happening of course as soon as i stop this they're going to start again but we'll try because we've got ronald sullivan who's listening a

that they could not move mr floor because the crowd grew angrier and angrier and angrier and donna williams a calling them bums and so forth was the was was the angriest you know that's their theory and that's really all they can go with the difficult thing is what i think most people will realize is that the police did not react because of what the crowd did rather the crowd reacted because of the behavior of the police they were watching an individual die before their very eyes and that's a tough situation to be in now that the the fit's is really really flux here with respect to how to use race. there yet they're saying people were angry but they're not attaching race to it they have to be very careful therefore black jurors on here that the trope of an angry black man is tried and true in criminal trials all across the united states but they have to be very careful here they can't do that so they're just they're using generic terms like people were angry people were shouting but being very careful not to a show associate race with it. and now we see and we have heard i shouldn't say we

blood choke and the officer he says then locked eyes with him well when that account or was over donna williams said he called 911 he dialed the emergency number to get police as he says he called the cops on the cops he was asked why he did that why didn't just talk to the officers on the scene and he said i felt like i just witnessed a murder then we heard the powerful testimony of a young woman who took that viral video that everybody around the world has now seen and she said she thought it seemed like george floyd knew that it was over for him and she went on just. say that she had brothers who were black and she thought of them when she thought of george floyd and that that night she went to her house and she asked george floyd you know then deceased to forgive her for not doing more to save his life and then just before the break john. i mean this was this was extraordinary to hear i thought the testimony of a of a 9 year old girl you're hearing the most if i can use this phrase innocent version of events the clearest version of events she talked about how the ambulance came but they had

donna williams, first on the stand, stood feet away. he was so disturbed he called 911 to report it. they played the audio for the co court. >> i called the police on the police. >> why did you do that? >> because i believe i witnessed a murder. >> reporter: as part of a k contentious exchange, the crowd grew loud. >> you called him a tough guy. >> i did. >> those terms grew more and more angry, would you agree with that? >> reporter: over witnesses echoed williams' feelings highlighting what they saw has haunted them since may. >> i stayed up apologizing and apologizing to george floyd for not doing more. >> i have a black father, a black brother, black friends, and i look at that and i look at how that could have been one of them. >> reporter: that was then 17-year-old darnell frazier. she recorded the video. she testified along with her 9-year-old cousin who was also at the scene. they both appeared via audio only given their ages at the time of the incident. >> what was it about the scene that caused you dom to come bac? >> it wasn'

. >> donna williams was standing right next to her. >> i believe i witnessed a murder. after floyd's seemingly unresponsive body was loaded into the ambulance that day, williams called the police on the police he had just witnessed, in particular derek chauvin. that 911 audio was played in co court. williams didn't feel he could talk to the officers at the scene. >> did you believe they were involved? >> yes, totally. >> reporter: but the most contentious exchange of the trial so far -- >> did you say that? >> is that what you heard? >> reporter: -- is between williams and chauvin's attorney during cross examination. >> you called him a bum at least 13 times. those terms grew more and more angry. would you agree with that? >> they grew more and more pleading for life. >> reporter: the defense emphasizing a point it made during opening statements, that the perceived threat from a growing crowd caused chauvin to direct his attention away from floyd's care. the next witnesses appeared by audio only, since they were under 18 at the time of floyd's death, including a 9-year-

wolf, a very powerful day of opening statements, and right now we're hearing from a witness, donna williams who is standing just feet away back in may as she was pinned under derek chauvin's knee and he was yelling at officer to get off of floyd. he told cnn days later at the time that speaking of the officers that they wanted to kill that man, and of chauvin he knew what he was doing. this is technically day 13 of this trial, but in many ways it feels like day one as we've now crossed that threshold into opening statements and now have a clear picture for what each side is going to argue either for or against derek chauvin. >> do you swear or affirm. >> it's a moment that's been long awaited. >> ladies and gentlemen of the jury, good morning. >> counsel, mr. chauvin, members of the jury. >> reporter: opening statements in a trial that many see as major step towards justice for george floyd. >> on may 25th of 2020. >> reporter: prosecutors starting with the unavoidable. >> i can't breathe. >> reporter: playing in full the video of derek chauvin's knee pressed to floyd's neck as he slowly lo

. >> reporter: the jury also heard from donna williams, a mixed martial-arts instructor at the scene. he's trained in the use of chokeholds and yeld to chauvin of the blood choke he had him in p. he's pushing that pressure down on his neck. >> reporter: the nation has been waiting ten months for this trial. demonstrators flooded the surrounding streets outside the courthouse in minneapolis. floyd's brother was in the courtroom monday. he says this trial is a test for the justice system. >> america is on trial right now. minneapolis, minnesota, they would have to get this right. we're tired of people being killed and slaughtered. if you can't get justice for this as a black man in america, what can you get justice for? >> reporter: testimony is going to pick up with donald williams. he's going to finish what he started yesterday. and back in may, he told cnn just days after he witnessed what happened to floyd from just feet away that he believed these officers wanted to kill that man. speaking of floyd. and of chauvin, he said he knew what he was doing. court gets back into session in

. >> reporter: prosecutor donna williams was on the scene that day. >> shehe's not resisting arrest bro. >> you see his toe pointing down and you will see a small gesture in the back foot and the pressure being pushed more down between his knee, head and concrete. >> reporter: ben crump is the floyd family attorney. >> i thought that the prosecution presented well today. i thought the first witness was a bombshell. >> reporter: are you going to be able to take in all of the information week after week? >> we came here to get justice whatever it takes, and we won't stop until we get it. >> reporter: we don't know who's on the witness list for later this morning. we know donald williams, the man who described chauvin's choke, will be first to finish his testimony before being cross-examined. at some point prosecutors will call the police of police to testify that the knee on the neck is not a normal police maneuver. this testimony will be highly unusual because he's testifying against one of his own former officers, gayle. >> jamie, thank you very much. alexis hogue joins us now to share

oiler, who works at a gas station across the street from the site where floyd was pinned down and donna williamsst now he was a bystander who was heard on the video trying to intervene as officers pinned floyd down. all this as minneapolis and the country remain on edge with the trial becoming a sign, a question about whether things have changed since racial justice protests swept the country and the world last summer. "washington post" puts it this way. a white former police officer will go on trial for the killing of a black man in a case many view as a barometer of racial change in the u.s. as much as about derek chauvin's guilt or innocence, many black americans will be watching to see what justice means. after seeing so many cases in which police officers have largely been acquitted or gone uncharged in the killing of black men and women. eric garner, breonna taylor, daniel prude. floyd's family took a knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, roughly the time they say chauvin kept his knee on floyd's neck and pleaded for justice. watch. >> we will get justice. we will not allow derek chauvin and

that is the call donna williams made you can see him listening in court when the call was playback.amatic this morning. we have heard the conclusion of the evidence that you heard — the conclusion of the evidence that you heard some of their from donald williams _ you heard some of their from donald williams. he was in it quite a testy exchange _ williams. he was in it quite a testy exchange with the lawyer for derek chauvin, _ exchange with the lawyer for derek chauvin, eric nelson. the judge intervened _ chauvin, eric nelson. the judge intervened a few times. there were moments _ intervened a few times. there were moments he recognised american courtrooms were people raised objections and they were sustained or objected or overruled. people and a woman— or objected or overruled. people and a woman began to give evidence and she will— a woman began to give evidence and she will come back shortly. she only turned _ she will come back shortly. she only turned 18_ she will come back shortly. she only turned 18 last week and she was the person— turned 18 last week and she was the perso

next to hero as a young man nad donna donald williams, mixed martial arts who was alarmed when he saw between this exchange of mr. chabot on top of george floyd. he's going to come in and testify to you so any number of these bystanders and others also we come in to talk to you. and so they come from the broad spectrum of humanity, different races, different genders. you have older people,e, younger people but you will see that what they all had in common is they were going about their business is that they saw something that was shocking to them, that was disturbing to them and made them stop and take note. stop and take note. they tried to first you will learn when you meet them to intercede on what was happening with their voices. they tried to interject, to exhort, to please stop come to try to get them to what we call good trouble just with the voices because something there was concerning to them. and when that didn't work you can see any number of them pull out their cameras to document what was happening. such that would be memorialized, such that it would not be misrepresente

i think t not just one serena if williams poster, one donna summer album. i think it is immersion, i think it is about having black family because that is what you are when you have black children. that doesn't mean that you are black. because white folks are so unaccustomed to thinking about blackness and black folks in way that doesn't demoralize or degrade, it's sort of like, okay, what's the flip of that? okay, let me just bring it and take it and own it and appropriate it, and then we're good to go. it's like, you know, it's hike our family. we are a black family with a white guy in it. and he's aware of that, can that's just fine. but i guess i would say to white parents of black children, you know, your children are your children, but they are also children of black culture, and you have to -- so there has to be a black cultural parent or proxy in the house. >> i mean, the thing that i longed for most when with i -- and i notice host, it's not there, i guess, is a way of putting it. st just the easy acknowledgment of pain. there are so many times in