Harris: The ‘Evidence’ in George Floyd’s Death Supports the Charges Against the Officers Involved

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) says she believes that the charges against the officers involved in the death of 👤George Floyd are supported by the circumstances around the incident.

“The circumstances and the evidence surrounding 👤George Floyd’s death, I think without any question support the charges against them,” Harris said during an interview on ABC’s “The View” on Monday.

She continued, “But it will not be easy to get a conviction because it is still the case that jurors are still inclined to trust — because that’s part of the social contract — to trust police officers. And that has been part of the difficulty that so many prosecutors have had when they brought these cases.”

“But there is no denying that this officer, and those who were his accomplices, should pay a real consequence and accountability for what they’ve done,” she added.

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Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, was fired and initially with charged third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after a video surfaced of Chauvin pinning Floyd to the ground by placing his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes.

In the video, Floyd could be heard saying, “I can’t breathe.”

On June 3, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced