Read the transcript of Thomas Lane's body camera footage during George Floyd call By Staff reports Star Tribune
July 9, 2020 — 10:48am
Thomas Lane's attorney sought Wednesday to dismiss charges against him in the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The transcript begins as Thomas Lane and his partner J. Alexander Keung speak with an employee at Cup Foods about a possible counterfeit $20 bill. The transcript concludes as Lane jumps out of the ambulance carrying Floyd to Hennepin County Medical Center. ...
Read transcript here, at Star-Tribune.
The officer asks Floyd if he's on something, because his behavior is erratic and he's foaming at the mouth. Cops repeatedly tell him to stop resisting. At one point, Floyd says: "Okay, okay. I want to lay on the ground. I want to lay on the ground. I want to lay on the ground."
While cops are trying to get him into the car, just after he said he wants to be on the ground, he starts repeating, "I can't breathe." He's still complaining about not being able to breathe when Ofcr. Kueng announces that EMS is on its way.
Floyd then complains, "My face is gone ... My face is getting it bad." A cop asks whether he's high on something and another answers, "I assume so."
Floyd says, "I can't breathe my face," and Ofcr. Lane comments, "He's got to be on something." Lane adds that they found a "weed pipe" on him, and asks whether he might be on PCP.
Bystanders complain that Floyd appears to be unconscious by this time, calling the cops "bums."
Bottom line, it appears Floyd killed himself with an overdose of Fentanyl and other drugs.
