Genevieve Hansen was off duty on May 25, 2020, but said she identified herself as a Minneapolis firefighter when saw Floyd on the ground. She testified at the trial of former Officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao that she could see Floyd's head being pressed onto the street under the knee of former Officer Derek Chauvin, while other officers helped hold him down.
Hansen said she asked Thao -- who kept bystanders from intervening -- to check Floyd's pulse. Kueng knelt on Floyd's back and Lane held his legs, according to prosecutors. Hansen testified that Thao told her something to the effect of, if she were a firefighter, she would know better than to get involved.
Paramedic Derek Smith testified that he wasn't told Floyd wasn't breathing and had no pulse when officers upgraded the urgency of an ambulance call. Smith said that after he arrived, he could not find a pulse in Floyd's neck and that his pupils were large, indicating that "the patient was probably deceased."
Lane's attorney, Earl Gray, asked whether Lane was helpful by getting into the ambulance and trying to revive Floyd, including squeezing an air bag to try to ventilate Floyd's lungs. "In my opinion, he was helpful, yes. Thank you," Smith said.
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