Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said state investigators arrested Derek Chauvin, who was one of four officers fired this week, but he did not provide details. The state attorney who would oversee any prosecution on state charges, whose home was also the site of protests, was scheduled to provide an update later Friday.
His comments came the morning after protesters torched a police station that officers abandoned during a third night of violence. Livestream video showed protesters entering the building, where intentionally set fires activated smoke alarms and sprinklers. President Donald Trump threatened action, tweeting “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” which prompted a warning from Twitter for “glorifying violence.
He defended the city's lack of engagement with looters - only a handful of arrests across the first two nights of violence - and said, “We are doing absolutely everything that we can to keep the peace.” He said National Guard members were stationed in locations to help stem looting, including at banks, grocery stores and pharmacies.
Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing members of Floyd's family, called for an independent investigation, and said he asked to take custody of Floyd's body to have an independent autopsy performed. Floyd said that talk of a heart condition or asthma are irrelevant because Floyd was walking and breathing before his contact with police.
Elsewhere in Minneapolis, thousands of peaceful demonstrators marched through the streets calling for justice.
Hopefully along with his other murders..
All cops are pigs! World wide
For f sakes FINALLY. why do people have to protest for this. Common sense oh wait some cops and DA doesn't have this smh what an embarrassment for those idiots who cannot see plain that a crime was committed they should also be fired too
May justice happen and be served. On video this person should be treated like how treated Floyd! BlackLivesMatters
alleged murder would have been better than this farce.
He supposed to been arrested. 😤
That was to save him from the anger and retribution from crowd.
He wasn’t just kneeling, he was choking.
he was MURDERED. GEORGE FLOYD WAS MURDERED.
1st fix your headline. 2nd what’s up with the picture? Put the murderer’s picture up!!
America is in big trouble. Option: 4 more years of Trump or Joe Bidden. Wow, what a choice! Watching Bidden just speak about Minneapolis was like a badly rehearsed skit. I'm sure he means his words but the delivery was terrible, almost came across as feigned.
He killed a defenceless man who was begging for his life 😠 FIX THE DAMN TITLE
WHO MURDERED *
1 down, 3 to go.
Fix this headline!!! He murdered him
'Minneapolis cop who murdered George Floyd finally arrested.' Fixed it for you.
cop who murdered GeorgeFloyd on video arrested..there fixed the headline icantbreathe LivingWhileBlack
About time!
Bad choice of words don’t you think? He was murdered!
Remind your audience that there were 3 other officers present and therefore complicit in that murder, they all need to be arrested, charged and convicted.
This headline isn’t correct . He was seen *murdering* George floyd
*Recorded commiting a murder
MURDERED HE MURDERED HIM BlackLivesMatters JusticeForGeorgeFlyod
Hope he survived 9 minutes of the arresting office's knee on his neck. Or maybe I don't....
KNEELING ON? fix that headline
He needs to do life in there, along side his sidekicks.
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