I'm transphobic. You ain't going to win. >> I'm transphobic and I got anxiety. I don't want to do nothing to this. >> I'll roll the window down, >> man. I'm scared, man. >> It began with a fake bill. But what unfolded next revealed more than just a broken system. It exposed a pattern of dehumanization so routine it came with a manual. >> What you're about to see isn't just about one man. It's about the knee of an institution pressing down on the neck of an entire people. >> Gentlemen, sorry. >> The driver in there which one over there. >> Which one? >> Yeah. Just head back in. Let >> me see your hands, man. >> The car. Let me see your other hand. >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> Let me see your other hand. >> Both hands. >> Put your hands up right now. >> The call was simple. Suspected counterfeit money. In any rational world, this ends with a citation, maybe a stern warning. Instead, it begins with hands on holsters. >> Put your hand up there. >> Put your hand up there. >> Jesus Christ. Keep your hands in the wheel. Got shot. >> Keep your hands in the wheel. Yes, sir. >> I'm sorry, officer. >> Who else is in the car? >> I got shot. That's my >> Put your foot back in. >> I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. >> God dang, man. >> Man, I got I got shot the same way, Miss before. >> Okay. Well, what I say? Let me see your hands. You put your hands up. I'm >> so sorry, officer. You got him, man. Dang, man. >> Put your hands on top of your head. >> Last time I got shot like that, I was >> Hands on top of your head. >> Hands on top of your head. >> Step out of the vehicle and step away from me. All right. >> Step out and face away. Step out and face away. >> Please don't shoot me. Please, man. >> I'm not going to shoot you. Step out and face away. >> I'm going to get out of eye, man. Please don't shoot me, man. >> Shooting me, man. But it wasn't working. >> I just lost my mom, man. >> Taking one out. Step out and face away. >> Step out and face away. >> Please don't shoot me, Mr. Officer. Please don't shoot me, man. >> Step out and face away. >> Can you not shoot me, man? >> I'm not shooting you. Step out and face away. >> Okay. Okay. Please. >> Let's pause here. How many innocent men plead for their lives over a $20 bill? Even in compliance, Floyd is treated as though he's resisting. This reflects a presumption of guilt based on his race and physical presence. I didn't know. I didn't know >> right now. >> Stop moving. >> Nothing. >> Put your hand behind your back then. >> I'm not going to do nothing. >> In the door. >> Hey, you come back. Stay in the car. >> I'm sorry. I was on my knees, bro. >> Stop resisting there. >> I'm not Yes, you are. >> Get the wall. >> Me? >> Yes. >> We're figuring out what's going on. Drop the bag. >> Figure out what's going on. >> Adam said something to him. It ain't us. >> We was getting a ride. >> I just got my phone fixed. >> Adam. Both Floyd and his passengers genuinely don't know why they're being detained. Clear communication could have diffused tension, but the officers never explained. >> You can ask Mr. Adam about me. >> Do you have ID? >> I'm on 38. >> 320 record. >> You can ask Mr. Adam, sir. I just came to bought a tablet >> and when I bought a tablet, it didn't he didn't work. >> Oh my god. >> He didn't even do nothing. >> I got one of those. Sir, >> you have ID? >> No, I don't. My name Hill, >> sir. >> I just came over to get my phone. You see, I don't have a purse or nothing. >> And my daughter is on her way to get me. >> What's his deal? >> Mr. Adam knows me, sir. >> That's my >> Why is he getting all squirly and not showing us his hands and just being all weird like that? >> Because he's been shot. >> Well, I get that. But still, when officers say get out of the car, is he drunk? Is he on something? Oh, he got a thing going on. I'm telling you about police. >> He have problems all the time when they come, especially when that man stood that gun like that. It's been one. >> Well, >> so here's the thing. >> Someone passed a big bill in there. >> Oh, >> we come over here. He starts grabbing for the keys and all that stuff. >> Starts getting weird, not showing us his hands. I don't know what's going on. So, you're coming out of the car. So, just hang tight right here. Stay right here, please. >> Out. Out here. You want something right now? >> Not no nothing. >> Cuz you acting erratic. >> See, man is so scared, man. >> Let's go. >> Yes. Yes. I was just Ubering earlier. >> Let's go, man. >> All right. Let me come on down now. It's going to look better now. >> Keep walking. >> Okay. You do me one favor, man. >> No. When we get to the car, let's get to the car, man. Come on. >> Dang, man. Oh, man. God, don't leave me, man. Please, man. Leave me, man. >> Here. I want to watch that car, too. So, >> describing Floyd as erratic lays the groundwork for excusing excessive force. It ignores his mental state and stokes suspicion. >> Can I talk to you, man? I just want to talk to you, man. Please, let me talk to you. Please, >> you ain't listen to nothing. So, we're not going to listen to nothing you saying. >> Can you watch that car? Just make sure no one goes in it. >> I'm about to >> I hear you, but you are going to face the door right now. >> Listen up. Stop. >> I'll do anything y'all tell me to do, man. I'm not always listening, man. I'm not. I'm not. You can ask him. He know me, you know. >> God, man. I won't do nothing like that, y'all. Why is it going on like this? Look at my wrist. Mr. Oliver, >> I'm not that kind of guy. >> Mr. Officer, I'm not that kind of guy. >> Stop. Please. I'm not that kind of guy, Mr. Please. >> Please, man. Don't leave me by myself, man. Please. I'm just claustrophobic. That's it. >> Well, you're still going in the car. Anything sharp on you? >> I won't do nothing to hurt you. You don't have anything sharp on you? >> No sir. >> Not even at home or nothing. >> Nothing. I don't have nothing. >> Why y'all doing me like that? Ma, please crack it for me and stuff, man. >> I am claustrophobic for real. Mr. Officer, >> you got him. >> Can you please crack it for me? Please my name. Stay with me, man. Please stay with me, man. Thank you. >> God, man. I didn't know this was going to happen, man. >> Please, man. I didn't want my free to none of y'all, man. Nothing. Is that inside your pocket real quick on your shirt? >> And I'm listening and I understand that that that that people do stuff and and and nothing work. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. >> Grab a seat. >> I'm having trouble walking out because my rolls down, man. Please don't do >> Take a seat. >> I'm going in, Mr. I'm going in. NO, YOU'RE NOT. >> I [clears throat] GOT TO GO IN. >> Take a seat. >> Grab a seat. >> Mind y' don't relieve me, Mr. I'm not that kind of guy. >> I'm not that kind of guy, man. >> Take a [clears throat] seat. GOD, I'MMA DIE IN HERE. TAKE A SEAT. I'MMA DIE, MAN. >> You need to take a seat right now. >> AND I JUST HAD CO, MAN. I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO THAT. >> I'll roll the windows down. Hey, listen. >> Dang, man. >> Listen. >> I'm [clears throat] not that kind of guy. >> I'll roll the windows down the legs in. All right. I'll see you're on. >> From the moment Floyd speaks, he's treated like a threat, not a man. His apologies are met with shouting. His compliance [music] is twisted into resistance and his fear, his visible trauma from past police violence dismissed, laughed off. >> Look at that. Look at that. >> Not even listening. >> Look at it. Look at it. >> WE CAN PICK WHILE you standing up. >> Okay, man. God, y'all do me bad, man. >> Win, >> man. I don't I don't want to try to win. I don't want to try to win. >> I don't want TO WIN. I'M JUST PHOBIC. >> YOU AIN'T GOING TO WIN. >> I'M CATOPHOBIC. I GOT ANXIETY. I DON'T WANT TO DO NOTHING TO THEM. >> I'LL ROLL the window down, >> man. I'm scared as man. You need to take when I start breathing. When I start breathing, it's going to go off on me, man. >> Pull your legs in. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. Let me count to three. Let me count to three. I'm going in. Please. >> I'm not trying to win. I'm not trying to win. I get on the ground. Anything. >> I can't stand this, man. He know it. >> He know. Can I talk to you, please? >> YOU GET IN THIS CAR. WE CAN TALK. >> I'M CLUST. I'M HEARING YOU, BUT YOU'RE NOT WORKING WITH ME. GOD, I'm claustrophobic, man. Get in the car. I'm glad you're going over here. I'm going to pull you out in the car. You get me in the front, please. >> No, you're not getting in the front. I'm all in the car. >> Okay, man. Okay. I'm not a bad guy, MAN. >> IN THE CAR. >> I'M NOT A BAD GUY. [screaming] MAN, PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE TAKE A SEAT. >> PLEASE, MAN. PLEASE. NO. Take a seat. >> I CAN'T I CAN'T JOKE. I CAN'T BREATHE WITHOUT FINE. >> MY WRIST. MY WRIST, MAN. I got it, man. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. >> Please, man. To me. >> Is he going to jail? >> Listen to me. >> He's under arrest right now for forgery. >> What's going on? >> Take him out and just come on out. >> Look at you. Thank you. >> Yeah. Just get up the >> on the ground. >> I appreciate that. I do. >> You got your uh breathing. >> I can't breathe. >> Jesus Christ. >> Thank you. >> Stop moving. >> Mama. Mama. >> Yeah. >> Mama. >> One of the front pouches. >> Mama >> on my right side back. >> Mama. Mama. >> EMS. >> You're on guy. >> All right. All right. Oh my god. >> I can't believe this. >> I can't believe this. >> I can't believe this. >> I can't believe this, man. >> Mama, I love you. Reese, I love you. >> You got Hobble. >> My kids. I love them. I'm grabbing it. >> I'm dead. >> Those aren't excuses. That's human vulnerability on full display. >> Mom, I love you. >> I can't do nothing. >> My face is gone. >> Um >> I can't breathe, man. >> Please. >> All right. [clears throat] >> Please let me stand. >> Please, man. I can't breathe. >> Can you get up on the sidewalk, please? One side or the other, please. >> My face get up bad. here. So, we get his legs up. >> Yeah, just leave them. >> All right. >> Hopefully Park's still sitting on the car. They were >> He was acting very little shady like she was in there. >> I'm assuming he wouldn't get out of the car. >> Um just he wasn't following instructions. >> Yeah, it's across the street. Parks watching. >> Two other people with him. >> Listen to how the officers talk about Floyd among themselves. acting real shady. They dehumanize him, reducing a terrified man to a suspicious object. There is no curiosity about why he's afraid, only presumption of guilt. >> Please, man, >> relax. >> I can't breathe. You're talking >> fine. You're talking fine. >> Deep breath. >> I can't breathe. I can't breathe. >> My body died. >> Relax, >> man. I can't breathe my face. Just get up. >> He's got to be on something. >> What do you What do you want? >> I can't breathe. Please in my dick. >> I can't breathe. [ __ ] >> Get up. Get in the car, man. >> I will. >> Get up. Get in the car. >> I can't move. >> Get in the car. >> Found a weed pipe on him. There might be something else with it. Might be like PCP or something. >> Is that the shaking of the eyes? Right. Is PCP? >> My knee. >> My neck. Were their eyes like shake back and forth really fast? >> I got this moving. My stomach hurt. >> Uhhuh. >> My neck hurt. >> Uhhuh. >> Everything hurt. Piece of water or something. Leave. >> I can't believe we talking. They will kill me. takes a heck of a lot of money. >> Come on, man. >> And then the knee. Chau van Neils and the others stand guard like sentinels of cruelty. 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Not 1 second was justified while pinned on the pavement. Floyd's life is reduced to radio codes and logistics. [music] The officers discuss EMS responses yet do nothing to alleviate his suffering. They tell him to take a deep breath as if the problem is his compliance rather than their knee on his neck. >> I cannot breathe. They'll kill me. They don't kill me. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. >> We tried that for 10 minutes. Roll him on the side. >> Okay. >> I just worried about the delirium or whatever. >> Okay, that's false. >> Officer Lane wonders about excited delirium, a controversial diagnosis often used to excuse excessive force. Critics call it junk science and note its disproportionate use against black [music] people. >> Your body language is crazy. >> I already knew that, bro. I told you what happened at the academy, bro. You know that's bogus right now, bro. You know he's looking at me like a man, bro. Arrest right now. >> I think he's passing off right now, bro. You think that's cool? >> You think that's cool though, right? Washington Street. >> All right, >> I mean, my knee might be a little scratched, but I'll survive. Lane's question about rolling Floyd onto his side shows that at least one officer sensed danger. Chovin's refusal, no, he's staying put, sealed Floyd's fate. This was a clear moment when a life could have been saved. Despite this, one officer laments that his own knee is scratched while the man under him is suffocating. The lack of empathy is staggering. >> Come over here >> up on the sidewalk. >> Yeah, we need you to we need you to keep them distance. He's not responsive. He's not responsive right now. >> He's not responsive right now, bro. Look at him. He's not responsive right now, bro. Put that on his neck, bro. >> Is he breathing right now? Check his paw. Check his paws. Check his bro. drugs. >> What is that? What do you think that is? So you call what he doing. Okay. >> You call what he doing. Okay. You call you call what you you call what you doing. Okay. >> Yes. You think that's okay? Check his check. The man ain't moved yet, bro. The man ain't moved yet, bro. The people who tried to save George Floyd weren't wearing badges. They weren't trained in deescalation. They were regular people watching a man die and screaming for someone to care. Get off of this, bro. >> Get off of me. >> Are you serious? >> They speak about procedure, CPR, and non-compliance. But let's ask the obvious. Why was this man ever on the ground? Why was a fake bill met with this level of violence? Why does fear from a black man automatically translate into suspicion? the vehicle with a >> touch. All right. What was going on? >> Uh it was a forger airport. >> Yep. >> And uh he was just not compliant with getting out of the car. >> Okay. >> We're trying to get him in the back of the squad. >> Okay. >> And uh he was just basically resisting. >> Yep. >> Um he wasn't showing us his hands at first. Uh then we were trying to get him in the squad. He kicked his way out. He was kicking on there and uh we came out the other side and he was fighting us and we were just basically restrain him until you guys got here. >> Okay. >> Going to be parked. >> I did do CPR. You want me doing just compressions? >> Compressions. Okay. >> Any fighting with you guys for a long time? >> No. I mean, a little bit, but not I wouldn't say a long time. Maybe a minute or two. >> We were just trying to get in the squad and then came out the other end and we're just like, we'll just wait. >> A lot of activity prior. Um, all right. It took a bit to get him. I mean, we got him out of the car and then handcuffed him and we're walking them over there. Um, walk them across the street. You need me to straight places? >> You guys need me in here still or? >> You're good. We're good. Thank you. >> Okay. >> There's a bag. Even after Floyd is clearly unconscious, the officers justify their actions with a slurry of contradictions. They claim he was combative while we watch him beg for his life. They say he was high. While Floyd's real high was fear, a rational conditioned fear born from centuries of racialized policing. >> So, what happened? More drama at Cup Foods. >> Uh Cup Foods. Yeah. Uh it was just a forgery report and that was the guy that they said was uh the person that had given him a fake bill. going over there and yeah, I just >> at >> Yeah. I mean, he was we were trying to get him out of the car. Um he kept his hand like this basically wasn't showing me his hand. So I I'm like, "Let me see your other hand." I gave him a couple commands for that. He wouldn't do it. And then he finally did. So then we're like, "All right, we're going to get him out of the car right now." And cuz he kept looking >> looking for like the key. I thought he was going to try and drive off. >> Oh jeez. >> Yep. >> Yeah. Yeah, we didn't cuz it was like come to the So we're there and then the officers there like no no no they're >> Yeah. The crowd was a little more. >> By the end of this encounter, George Floyd's please had been ignored and his life extinguished. Floyd's death not only led to convictions for the officers involved, but also spurred legislative changes, corporate pledges, and renewed activism. Yet instances of police brutality and racial bias persist. us and he crashed in the field. I wonder what he was on. >> Not sure, but yeah, he was he seemed uh very agitated and paranoid and um >> that's a shame. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Seems like if it's witnessed, the results can be pretty good if they're doing CPR right away, you know. So that's a good >> cuz they get stuff going so quickly and >> it does. >> But yeah, they need more hands. It's like >> they led marches in all 50 states. They forced legislation. They exposed complacency. But 5 years on, where are we? In early 2021, Chauan was put on trial for seconddegree murder, thirdderee murder, and convicted on all of the charges. He was sentenced [music] to 22 and a half years in prison. Fellow officers Thomas Lane and Jay Alexander Quang pleaded guilty or were convicted of aiding and abetting. Lane was released from prison in August 2024. Quang in January 2025. Tuttow was sentenced to nearly 5 years because while one knee was removed, the weight of the system remains. 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