The force used by police officers against George Floyd last year in the moments preceding his death was “totally unnecessary,” a Minneapolis Police Department lieutenant testified on April 2.
“Pulling him down to the ground face down and putting your knee on a neck for that amount of that amount of time, it’s just uncalled for,” Lt. Richard Zimmerman, the head of the department’s homicide unit and the department’s longest-serving officer, told the court in Minneapolis during the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin.
