Witnesses to George Floyd’s death gave emotional testimonies at Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. The U.S. says we need more data before we …
Witnesses to George Floyd’s death gave emotional testimonies at Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. The U.S. says we need more data before we point fingers at what started COVID-19. And SpaceX picked two more Earthlings to send to space. Ashley and Laura here. It’s Tuesday’s news. The Short List is a snappy USA TODAY news roundup. Subscribe here! Through tears, Darnella Frazier, who recorded the infamous video showing the death of Floyd, offered emotional testimony Tuesday in the murder trial of Chauvin. “It seemed like he knew. It seemed like he knew it was over for him,” she said. Frazier was one of four witnesses for the prosecution who took the stand Tuesday. Floyd, a Black man, died in police custody on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pinned his knee against Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes as Floyd cried out “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times. Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Could the pandemic have come from a lab leak in Wuhan, China? A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19, released Tuesday, backed the theory that the virus was most likely transmitted from bats to humans through another animal, and drew little support for the lab-leak theory.
