Seeing live footage of George Floyd‘s arrest alarmed a 911 dispatcher enough, she called a police supervisor to respond to the scene … this according to newly released audio.
In phone recordings between the 911 dispatcher and a Minneapolis police supervisor, you hear the dispatcher openly question if the officers needed to use the kind of force she’d seen on video.
The dispatcher says to the supervisor, “You can call me a snitch if you want to but we have the cameras up … I don’t know if they had to use force or not, but they got something out of the back of the squad [car], and all of them sat on this man, so I don’t know if they needed you or not, but they haven’t said anything to me yet.”
The supervisor responds, “Yeah, they haven’t said anything yet … just a takedown, which doesn’t count, but I’ll find out.”
The dispatcher replies, “No problem, we don’t get to ever see it so when we see it we’re just like, well, that looks a little different, but …” and the conversation ends.
It’s unclear if the police supervisor responded to the scene before Floyd was loaded into an ambulance. However, no supervisors were there when Floyd was being killed on camera.
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As you know … the fatal incident started with a 911 call about Floyd allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill, and escalated to accused-murderer Derek Chauvin pinning his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes as he slowly died in front of shocked bystanders recording footage.
Chauvin is now facing murder and manslaughter charges, and the other 3 officers present during the arrest were also fired and criminally charged.