A 911 dispatcher who watched George Floyd’s arrest in real-time spoke to her supervisor over concerns regarding the four officers’ behavior at the scene.
In audio released Monday the unidentified woman tells her boss: ‘I don’t know, you can call me a snitch if you want to’ before telling him ‘all of them sat on this man’.
She made the comments after watching the arrest unfold in real-time on security cameras position around Minneapolis. Floyd’s death at the hands of police on May 25 has sparked protests against police brutality across the US.
Additional audio from two 911 calls made on the day of his death revealed an off duty firefighter told a dispatcher: ‘Hello, I am on the block of 38th and Chicago and I literally watched police officers not take a pulse and not do anything to save a man.’
Video of the arrest shows officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, using his knee to pin down the neck of George, who was black and handcuffed, for eight minutes as Floyd pleaded for air and eventually stop to response.
Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.
The three other officers, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao, have been charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter. All four officers were fired.
In audio released Monday the 911 dispatcher tells her supervisor: ‘We have the cameras up for (squad) 320’s call, and…I don’t know if they had to use force or not, but they got something out of the back of the squad, and all of them sat on this man.
‘So I don’t know if they needed you or not, but they haven’t said anything to me yet.’
Her boss replies: ‘Yeah, they haven’t said anything yet … just a takedown, which doesn’t count, but I’ll find out.’