Leid Sotries - 04.07.21

Behind the Blue Line, Who's Policing the Police?

This week in the trial of Derek Chauvin--the Minneapolis ex-cop who is the central figure in the killing of George Floyd in a botched arrest on May 25 last year--expert witnesses testified about proper police procedures for arrest and restraint. 

They pointedly disputed Chauvin's claim that the knee-on-the-neck method he used to restrain Floyd was a police tactic. 

Today on Leid Stories we ask the question: Who's policing the police?