Minneapolis Chief: Chauvin Violated Policy Before Floyd Died

MINNEAPOLIS — Chief of the Minneapolis Police Department Medaria Arradondo Monday told jurors that former officer Derek Chauvin violated police ethics and policy by kneeling on George Floyd for over nine minutes.

"Once Mr. Floyd had stopped resisting, and certainly once he was in distress and trying to verbalize that, that should have stopped," Arradondo said when asked about Chauvin using his knee to keep Floyd pinned to the street.

"There's an initial reasonableness of trying to just get him under control in the first few seconds. But once there was no longer any resistance, and clearly when Mr. Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back, that in no way shape or form is anything that is by policy part of our training and is certainly not part of our ethics or values."

Arradondo is a witness for the prosecution. He is one of three officers expected to take the stand Monday. Chief Arradondo previously called Floyd's death a "murder," Fox 9 reports.

Monday marks the beginning of the second week in Chuavin's trial. Prosecutors and defense spent the first week shaping their arguments for who is to blame for Floyd's death. Watch the livestream of the trial here.