A cashier who was one of the last people to speak with George Floyd before his deadly arrest last May testified at Derek Chauvin's murder trial in Minneapolis today that Mr Floyd appeared to be high on drugs but was able to make friendly conversation.
The jury watched video today that showed a cheerful-looking Mr Floyd in his final minutes inside a grocery store before he ended up below Derek Chauvin on the road outside, a scene that the cashier, Christopher Martin, told the jury he watched in disbelief. Silent security-camera video played for the jury shows George Floyd dressed in a black tank top approaching Cup Food's counter with a banana in hand, smiling and making cheerful conversation and putting his arm around a woman.
"He seemed very friendly, approachable, he was talkative, he seemed to be having just an average Memorial Day, just living his life," Mr Martin recalled. "But he did seem high."
Unless the defence can prove beyond reasonable doubt that the use of force was fair and proportionate then they have a mountain to climb. HumanRights AllColoursMatter WeAreAll1
Smiling because he was about to try to defraud the cashier... And was high as fck