*The sister of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground and put his knee on his neck for about eight minutes, said the officers involved should be charged with murder.
Bridgett Floyd spoke to Hoda Kotb on “Today” on Wednesday, a day after it was announced that the four Minneapolis police officers involved in Monday’s incident were fired. Video from the scene filmed by a bystander showed a white police officer with his knee on Floyd’s neck for an extended period as Floyd, who is black, pleads that he can’t breathe and that his stomach and neck are hurting.
Floyd is then seen going silent as onlookers plead with the officer to let him up. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance, where he died Monday night.
“I would like for those officers to be charged with murder because that’s exactly what they did,” Bridgett Floyd said. “They murdered my brother. He was crying for help. I don’t need them to be suspended and able to work in another state or another county. Their license should be taken away, their jobs should be taken away, and they should be put in jail for murder.”
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