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Police union officials in Minneapolis say they haven’t been able to see body camera footage of the arrest of George Floyd.

Floyd, a black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day after being arrested on suspicion of forgery. One police officer, Derek Chauvin, who has since been fired, knelt on his neck for nearly eight minutes.

Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder, while three other officers involved, who also were fired in the wake of the incident, were charged with aiding and abetting the killing.

Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, said what happened to Floyd appears “horrific,” but that union officials have been blocked from seeing body camera footage from the arrest.

“The administration broke our policy, which gives us the ability to review the video, so we were blindsided. We only saw the social media video. In all other officer-involved critical incidents, we’re entitled to review. What I’ve seen of it is only what the public has seen on the cellphone, and it is horrific,” Kroll said.

“Any human being that watched that, knows that that shouldn’t have ended the way that it did,” Rich Walker Sr., director of the union, added. “But we also know that there is more to the story. They say he never resisted in the statements released. We don’t know if he never resisted because we haven’t seen from the time the officer stopped him until the point he was on the ground.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/minneapolis-police-union-officials-say-theyre-blocked-from-footage-of-floyd-arrest_3398961.html?ref=brief_News&__sta=vhg.uosvpxhnjlkhgc%7CQJJ&__stm_medium=email&__stm_source=smartech

I suspect the footage will seriously challenge the narrative about Floyd's level of aggression and officer response. If it was bad for the officers, it would have leaked or been released long ago.