Chief says Chauvin ‘in no way, shape or form’ followed training as key witnesses form striking bookends to week

The trial of Derek Chauvin, 45, the white former police officer charged with murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis last May, completed its 10th day of witness testimony on Friday.

The second week was very different from the first but no less dramatic. The opening days of prosecution witness testimony last week focused on the viral, harrowing bystander video and newly released footage of Floyd’s agonizing death, then on the accounts of some of the traumatized bystanders themselves.

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