Chauvin trial: cashier tells of guilt over role in events that led to George Floyd's death

Christopher Martin tells court this could have been avoided', on third day of testimony in former officer Derek Chauvin's trial

The cashier who served George Floyd in a Minneapolis store immediately before his arrest and death last May told a court on Wednesday of the disbelief and guilt" he felt for allowing Floyd to pay with a suspected fake $20 bill when he later saw the police kneeling on him.

Testimony on the third day of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's murder trial continued in an atmosphere of tense emotions and harrowing evidence about Floyd's death.