A key witness at the trial of an ex-Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd’s death used videos, animations and other imagery Thursday to show …
A key witness at the trial of an ex-Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd’s death used videos, animations and other imagery Thursday to show that Floyd died of a lack of oxygen that damaged his brain and stopped his heart – and to debunk key defense arguments. Dr. Martin Tobin, a lung and critical care specialist at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital and Loyola University’s medical school in Illinois, testified as a prosecution expert at Derek Chauvin’s trial. He said he had watched a large number of bystander and police body camera videos – some clips hundreds of times – to help develop the materials he presented to jurors. Tobin walked jurors through a computer animation showing how Chauvin and two other officers held Floyd down on the pavement. The creators of the video removed the image of a squad car partway through the scene so jurors could get a 360-degree view of where the officers were and what they were doing during the fatal encounter. He used other animations to show how the lungs work and what happens when the windpipe is restricted.
