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President Trump said Friday that he spoke with the family members of George Floyd, the man that was murdered in the hands of a cop, saying he expressed his sorrow.
“I spoke to members of the family, terrific people, and we'll be reporting as time goes by," Trump said at a roundtable event at the White House Friday evening.
“I just expressed my sorrow. That was a horrible thing to witness," Trump added, adding that it "looked like there was no excuse for it.”
Floyd, a black man, died after a police officer put his knee on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes. Floyd was heard repeating "I can’t breathe" on multiple videos showing the incident.
"I thought it was a terrible thing. A terrible picture," the president said. "I think that it's sad in so many ways from the standpoint of the family. When you look at George Floyd and his family. And you see what that's done to them just a terrible thing. He was in tremendous pain obviously. And couldn't breathe. It was very obvious to anybody that watched it. It was a very, very sad thing for me to see that."
Derek Chauvin, the cop on Floyd's knee, was taken into custody on Friday afternoon and charged with murder in the third degree and manslaughter. Chauvin was fired from his employer at the Minneapolis Police Department on Tuesday along with three other officers who witnessed Floyd's death.