An expert testifying in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin told the court on Tuesday that Chauvin’s knee restraint of George Floyd was “justified” and not deadly.
“I felt that Derek Chauvin was justified, was acting with objective reasonableness, following Minneapolis Police Department policy and current standards of law enforcement in his interactions with Mr. Floyd,” Barry Brodd, a use-of-force expert brought in by Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson, said in the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minnesota.
