Derek Chauvin Murder Trial In George Floyd's Death: Livestream

MINNEAPOLIS — Tuesday marks the 11th day of the murder trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin's attorney, Eric Nelson, will begin calling up his own witnesses to testify after spending much of the past 11 days of the trial grilling the prosecution's witnesses during the cross-examination.

It's not yet known if Chauvin himself will testify during his trial.

Nelson has spent the past two weeks arguing that drugs and heart disease, not Chauvin, killed Floyd.

State prosecutors, however, say Floyd's behavior in his final moments was not consistent with a drug overdose. In his opening statement, prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said that people dying from an overdose are "not screaming for their lives" as Floyd did.

The autopsy report from Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, did note fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd's system. However, Floyd's official cause of death was attributed to "cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression."

Baker testified Friday that while drugs and heart disease played a role in Floyd's death, they were not "direct causes."

The restraint Chauvin suffered under Chauvin was "more than Mr. Floyd could take," Baker told the jury.

Baker's answers came after Thursday's testimony from Dr. Martin Tobin, a forensic toxicology expert. Floyd died because of a lack of oxygen, according to Tobin. "A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died as a result of what he was subjected to," Tobin told the court.

Brooklyn Center police shooting

Following the fatal police shooting after Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center Sunday, Nelson asked Judge Peter Cahill Monday to sequester the jury, citing how the news may affect their verdict in Chauvin's trial. Cahill said he will wait to sequester the jury until next week during the trial's closing arguments.

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For the first time in Minnesota's history, the public has access to a live broadcast of the trial. Watch a livestream of day 12 of the trial below: