Police chief says Chauvin broke force policy
The authorities chief of Minneapolis has testified that ex-officer Derek Chauvin violated the agency's policy on force through the arrest of George Floyd.
Chief Medaria Arradondo said the way Mr Chauvin restrained Mr Floyd was not consistent with training and "certainly not part of our ethics and our values".
The principle had fired Mr Chauvin and the three other officers involved days after Mr Floyd's death last May.
Mr Chauvin is in trial for murder and has denied the charges against him.
Footage of Mr Chauvin, who is white, kneeling on African-American Mr Floyd's neck for a lot more than nine minutes this past year sparked global protests against racism.
Monday marks the sixth day found in Mr Chauvin's trial, which is likely to last for in least one month.
Prosecutors, who would like to prove that Mr Chauvin's activities violated his training, focused their questions on departmental guidelines and strategies taught to help officers de-escalate situations.
Mr Arradondo told the court Mr Floyd shouldn't have been restrained in the manner used by the officers after he stopped resisting, "and certainly once he was in distress".
He said the type of restraint Mr Chauvin, 45, was using came "once there is no more any resistance and obviously after Mr Floyd was no more responsive - and even motionless".
"That is, in no way, condition or form, by policy, isn't part of our training, and is obviously not part of our ethics and our values."
Mr Arradondo also noted it could be rare for officers to take on into custody a suspect accused of passing a counterfeit bill, due to Mr Floyd was.
The police chief said "talking the right path out of a predicament" was always much better than using force, adding that officers may seek the "community's help" when available.
Defence attorney Eric Nelson questioned Mr Arradondo about officers brandishing a weapon to defuse a predicament, seeing that Mr Chauvin did by supporting pepper spray to onlookers.
"Sometimes an officer must take out his gun, and say hey unless you listen to me I am going work with force," Mr Nelson said.
The chief agreed it had been in line with policy to sometimes gesture in such a way to have a suspect to back down.
When proven different angles of footage of the arrest by Mr Nelson, Mr Arradondo also noted that before the paramedics arrived, it appeared that Mr Chauvin had shifted his knee onto Mr Floyd's shoulder blade.
