Teens, child witnesses relive trauma of Floyd’s death in court

First week of trial over George Floyd’s death saw raw, riveting testimony from four teens and a nine-year-old girl.

Minneapolis, US – They are not old enough to legally vote or get a driver’s licence in the United States. One had not even reached her 10th birthday and all but one were too young to have their identities revealed to the public in court. But all were old enough to witness a man die in front of their own eyes. Of the 19 people who testified in the first week of the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 10 were bystanders on the scene as Black American George Floyd died. And of those, four were teenagers and one was a nine-year-old girl, highlighting how the jury was asked to relive the incident through the eyes of young people.