Derek Chauvin Trial Live Updates: Chilling New Video Brings Jurors to Scene of George Floyd’s Arrest

As he spoke, the trial of Derek Chauvin, who is accused of murder in Mr. Floyd’s death, played on the shop’s flat screen television behind him.

Mr. Abumayyaleh said his brothers and their father, Steve, who passed away in 2014, started the 24-hour business with very little in September 1988.

The work, he said, was difficult even before Mr. Floyd’s death. He said they called the police regularly for help when gang members were trespassing on their property. “It was getting better, but now it’s worse,” he said.

“We just want to stay in business,” Mr. Abumayyaleh added. “I don’t know what’s normal anymore. It’s just so confusing.”

It shows Mr. Floyd, sitting in the driver’s seat of a car, becoming visibly distraught as soon as officers approach him with weapons drawn, and repeatedly begging the officers not to shoot him. He sobs and screams in terror throughout much of the footage, and at no point does he appear to pose any threat to the officers.

At the beginning of the footage, while Mr. Floyd is still in the driver’s seat, one officer curses at him while ordering him to keep his hands in sight — showing the immediate aggressiveness with which the police acted. As the officers order him to get out of the car, he appears to be scared that they will kill him if he moves; it is at this point that he starts saying, “Don’t shoot me.”

He also says tearfully, “I didn’t know, man,” possibly referring to the accusation that the $20 bill he had used was counterfeit.

As the officers try to push Mr. Floyd into the back seat of a police vehicle, the footage shows him screaming and saying repeatedly that he is claustrophobic and scared.

It also underscores the nonchalance with which Mr. Chauvin responded to Mr. Floyd’s obvious distress. As Mr. Floyd begs for his life and says he can’t breathe, the officer says, “Takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to say that.” When another officer says he can’t find Mr. Floyd’s pulse, Mr. Chauvin says simply, “Uh-huh.”

The videos — introduced during testimony by Lt. Jeff Rugel, a body camera expert, who explained how the Minneapolis Police Department’s body cameras worked and verified the legitimacy of the footage — provide additional, horrifying perspectives on events that the public has previously seen from one or two angles.

In all of them, one of the things that stands out most is the depth of Mr. Floyd’s terror as he begs for his life, again and again, for minute after agonizing minute.

“Please! Please! Please!” he screams between sobs. “Mama! Mama! Mama!”

“Mom, I love you,” he says at one point, and then: “Please. I can’t breathe.”

His voice becomes quieter and quieter as he loses consciousness.

I couldn’t help but feel helpless. I don’t have a mama either, but I understand him. My mom died June 25.

The court adjourned to give Mr. McMillian time to compose himself, then returned to have him describe how Mr. Floyd reacted to Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck. Mr. McMillian said he became concerned because he believed Mr. Floyd was foaming at the mouth and struggling for air:

“I’m trying to tell him, just cooperate with them. Get up, get in the car. Go where you can win.”

Later, he said, he confronted Mr. Chauvin, recalling a friendly exchange the two had a few days earlier in the neighborhood:

I think I said to him, ‘Five days ago, I told you the other day to go home to your family safe and let the next person go home to their family safe. But today I gotta look at you as a maggot.’

Asked why he confronted Mr. Chauvin, he told the prosecution:

Because what I watched was wrong.

On Wednesday, that same stress started to impact the jury. The prosecution has shown the jury parts of the video multiple times every day of the trial. One juror interrupted the proceedings an hour into Wednesday’s session, motioning to the judge that she felt ill. The judge paused the trial citing the woman’s “stress-related reaction.” The 50-year-old woman told the judge that she was feeling shaky, but better, and that she had been having trouble sleeping.

Mr. Martin said he thought Mr. Floyd, unlike a friend of Mr. Floyd’s who had tried to use a fake bill earlier that day, had not realized that the bill was fake. “I thought I’d be doing him a favor” by accepting it, Mr. Martin said.

He said the store’s policy at the time was that clerks who accepted a fake bill had to pay to replace it themselves. Mr. Martin said that after Mr. Floyd and a passenger in his car refused to come back into the store, he offered to pay the store for it himself, but his manager later asked another worker to call the police.

Minutes later, Mr. Floyd was handcuffed on the ground under several Minneapolis police officers, and Mr. Martin could be seen on surveillance video with his hands raised over his head.

“If I would’ve just not taken the bill, this could’ve been avoided,” Mr. Martin testified.

During his testimony, prosecutors played surveillance footage from inside Cup Foods for the first time, showing Mr. Floyd chatting and laughing with shoppers and employees as he moved around the store. At one point, he purchased a banana, and at another point he was holding what appeared to be cash.

Mr. Martin said that Mr. Floyd had been friendly when he walked into the store and that the two had briefly discussed sports, but that Mr. Floyd had struggled to finish his sentences and appeared to be high on a drug.

An autopsy determined that Mr. Floyd was intoxicated with fentanyl and had recently used methamphetamines, but prosecutors have argued that the amount of drugs would not have been fatal for him because he had built up a tolerance over years of addiction. Medical experts and discussion of the autopsy are expected to be a major focus of the trial in the coming weeks.

About 30 minutes after the clerk called 911, Mr. Floyd was taken away on a stretcher. Not long after, he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

She was questioned with the audio and video feed turned off and the rest of the jury out of the room. “I’m shaky, but better,” she said, explaining that she had been having trouble sleeping and had been awake since 2 a.m.

The juror, a white woman in her 50s, was identified during jury selection as a health care nonprofit executive and a single mother of two. When asked if the police treated Black people and white people equally, she said no and added of George Floyd, “He didn’t deserve to die.”

When testimony resumed on Wednesday, she took notes and watched attentively as video was shown.

The jurors in this case are subject to numerous stressors, including fears for their privacy and safety and exposure to graphic evidence.

Though this is only the third day of the trial, they have already been shown multiple videos of officers kneeling on Mr. Floyd. On Tuesday, they heard emotional testimony from five eyewitnesses, including a 9-year-old girl and a rookie firefighter who tried to intervene to give Mr. Floyd medical attention.

The jurors are anonymous but face the prospect of their names being released at some point after the trial.

He said he and his employees were paying close attention to the trial. “We’d like to know the outcome,” he said, adding that the phone kept ringing because family and friends wanted to know if he was watching.

But he said he couldn’t say much because the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension “asked us not to comment until after the trial is over.”

A refrigerator display at the front door has fresh vegetables, and wire shelves of snacks — many with 2/$1 stickers on them — line the aisles. Prepared coffee is on offer at a counter with low spinning stools that looks out at what is now known as George Floyd Square. To the right, in the street, is where Mr. Chauvin pinned Mr. Floyd under his knee. The store is a welcome escape from the weather and sometimes the action outside.

“We’ve been able to stay open because of the support of the community,” Mr. Abumayyaleh said between watching the footage and helping customers on the floor and behind the counter, sometimes speaking in Arabic or Spanish.

Across from the television, the deli counter with metal tables and swivel seats was quiet. The offerings include steak and eggs, omelets, gyros and wings. There are coolers with soft drinks and coconut water. A glassed-in corner close to the entrance has tobacco products.

Across the street, activists and volunteers again gathered for a morning meeting under the portico of the former Speedway gas station. It’s a daily routine to gather by a fire ring that is kept burning by volunteers. On Wednesday morning, more than a dozen people gathered to talk and listen. There are regulars and first-timers most mornings.

As the trial got underway Wednesday, the group scattered to find warmth at the nearby Baha’i temple, to run errands or to head to work.

Some said they would keep an eye on the trial on television or on their phone. Others said they hadn’t been tuning in — it was too draining. They would instead listen to recaps or highlights of the day later on.

He videotaped part of Mr. Floyd’s arrest, he testified, but said he didn’t keep the footage:

Later on that night, I deleted it because when they picked George up off of the ground, the ambulance went straight onto 38th instead of going straight on Chicago. And if you live in south Minneapolis, the easiest way to get to the hospital would have been straight down Chicago. So that, to me, kind of made it like clear that he was no longer with us. Prosecutor: So you thought he had died? Correct. Prosecutor: Not quite sure why that would, you know, make you delete the video? Oh, I just didn’t want to have to show it to anyone and be questioned.

Mr. Martin said he quit his job at Cup Foods after Mr. Floyd’s death because he didn’t feel safe.

Derek Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric J. Nelson, tried several times on Tuesday to portray the crowd as interfering or threatening, but Ms. Tate said the defense was grasping. “I think they had to find something — when you can’t use the facts, you have to do something different,” she said.

Ms. Tate said she closely identified with the witnesses on Tuesday, saying that the 9-year-old girl who spoke off camera was particularly compelling. “I could almost feel like I was living in that moment with them,” she said. “Countless times, I myself have wished I had been able to intervene.”

The pool reports from Mr. Chauvin’s trial have included descriptions of masks the jurors are wearing, the demeanor of the jurors and the appearance of younger witnesses who are allowed to testify off-camera.

Pool reporting is commonly used in Washington media circles. When traveling, the president is usually accompanied by a few print and television journalists who represent the entirety of their disciplines and send out a series of short reports throughout the trip to those not on it.

When reporters from The Times use information from a pool report that they did not witness, the information is attributed to a pool reporter.

In the surveillance footage, Mr. Floyd can be seen laughing with employees and shoppers as he moves around the store, at one point holding a banana and at another point pulling out what appears to be some cash. The video was taken about an hour before he was taken away on a stretcher and about two hours before he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Mr. Martin testified on Wednesday that he had spoken briefly about sports with Mr. Floyd when he entered the store and that Mr. Floyd had appeared to be on a drug of some kind.

“It kind of took him a little long to get to what he was trying to say, so it would appear that he was high,” Mr. Martin said.

After selling Mr. Floyd some cigarettes, Mr. Martin said he realized that Mr. Floyd had given him a bill with some “blue pigment” on it that made him think it was counterfeit. At the time, Mr. Martin said, the store had a policy that clerks who accepted a fake bill had to pay to replace it themselves. He asked a manager what to do and a manager told him to go to Mr. Floyd, who was sitting outside in a car, and ask him to come inside, which Mr. Martin said he tried to do twice.

In the wake of Mr. Floyd’s death, Cup Foods’s owners temporarily closed the store and said they had changed their policies about when employees should call the police. They also received plenty of criticism.

“People were saying we were responsible for his death, that we had blood on our hands, that we’re the reason he died,” Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, an owner of the market, said last summer.

For more than 30 years, Cup Foods had been a neighborhood mainstay but also a source of complaints at the corner of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street. Customers could buy cigarettes, fresh produce and minutes for their cellphones, but some residents also complained about drug deals and violence nearby. Even as the neighborhood began to gentrify and barbershops and clothing stores closed as a cafe and art spaces moved in, Cup Foods — the name originally stood for “Chicago Unbeatable Prices” — did not budge.

Ms. Hansen was the first of several witnesses expected to be called by prosecutors on Wednesday as they continue to try to build a case against Mr. Chauvin, who is facing charges including second-degree murder.

On Tuesday, Ms. Hansen had dabbed her eyes as she described being “desperate” to get Mr. Floyd medical attention, acknowledging that she had cursed at the officers while doing so.

“There was a man being killed,” Ms. Hansen said. “I would have been able to provide medical attention to the best of my abilities, and this human was denied that right.”

In his cross-examination, Eric J. Nelson, Mr. Chauvin’s lawyer, tried to emphasize his argument that by yelling at the police officers, the group of bystanders had diverted the police’s attention from Mr. Floyd.

The exchange between Mr. Nelson and Ms. Hansen grew increasingly testy when he asked her if she would be distracted if people heckled her while she was fighting a fire, and when she admitted, in response to his questioning, that emergency medical workers typically do not approach scenes where the police are working until the officers tell them it is safe.

When Mr. Nelson asked if the bystanders at the scene of Mr. Floyd’s arrest were upset, Ms. Hansen shot back, “I don’t know if you’ve seen anybody be killed, but it’s upsetting.”

The response earned her a warning from the judge — not her last.

Toward the end of Tuesday, when the lawyer asked her about statements she made describing Mr. Floyd as a “small, slim man,” she responded by saying that while he appeared small with police officers on top of him, she now knew that he was not small.

“I’m advising you, do not argue with counsel and specifically, do not argue with the court,” Judge Peter A. Cahill said. “They have the right to ask questions, your job is to answer them.”

The testimony on Tuesday sometimes brought the witnesses, four of whom are minors, to tears. Some said they felt a sense of guilt for not stopping Mr. Chauvin from continuing to pin Mr. Floyd, but they ultimately blamed the former officer for the death.

“It seemed like he knew it was over for him,” said Darnella Frazier, 18, who took a video of Mr. Floyd’s final moments. “He was terrified. He was suffering. This was a cry for help, definitely.”

Witnesses describing the emotional toll of the scene most likely benefited the prosecution, but the trial will eventually move to subjects where the defense will be able to make its most crucial arguments.

The defense has yet to address Mr. Floyd’s exact cause of death in earnest, but it is expected to try to blame a drug overdose and a heart condition. Prosecutors have said they would present seven medical experts to show that the cause of death was asphyxia.

Experts said they also expected the trial to turn toward race. While prosecutors have made clear that this trial is about Mr. Chauvin, not policing in general, Mr. Floyd’s death caused a national outcry, with demonstrations rocking cities from New York to Portland, Ore., last summer.

It is unclear how any discussion of race will affect jurors, though the pool is considered diverse for Minneapolis: three Black men, one Black woman, two women who identified themselves as multiracial, two white men and four white women.

The jurors heard several witnesses on Tuesday say they were disturbed by the apparent lack of care that Mr. Floyd received and by how long Mr. Chauvin kept him pinned to the ground last May. As the trials moves on, the defense will need to separate Mr. Chauvin’s knee from Mr. Floyd’s death, but the witnesses so far have mostly said they consider the two indistinguishable.

In December, Minneapolis officials voted to divert nearly $8 million from the proposed policing budget to other city services. It was a shift of about 4.5 percent of the proposed $179 million police budget but fell short of the sweeping changes that many activists had demanded. The city has also moved to ban chokeholds and put in place new policies to promote de-escalation and restrict officers’ use of force.

At the national level, the House voted largely along party lines this month to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a sweeping bill that would combat racial discrimination, restrict uses of force and make it easier to prosecute officers for wrongdoing.

Republicans have opposed the bill, and so have many activists who say it does not go far enough. The Movement for Black Lives, a national coalition of more than 150 Black-led organizations, has called the legislation “fundamentally flawed” and pushed for a bill called the Breathe Act, which would direct federal funds toward community-based safety measures and away from jails, prisons and the police.

But even the reforms outlined in the Justice in Policing Act seem unlikely to pass the Senate anytime soon.