好英语网致命的8分46秒：弗洛伊德死前发生了什么
On May 25, Minneapolis police officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after a deli employee called 911, accusing him of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Seventeen minutes after the first squad car arrived at the scene, Mr. Floyd was unconscious and pinned beneath three police officers, showing no signs of life.
5月25日，明尼阿波利斯警方逮捕了46岁的黑人男子乔治·弗洛伊德(George Floyd)。此前，一名熟食店的雇员打电话报警，指控弗洛伊德用一张20美元的假钞购买香烟。在第一辆警车抵达现场的17分钟后，弗洛伊德被三名警官按倒在地，陷入昏迷，失去生命迹象。
By combining videos from bystanders and security cameras, reviewing official documents and consulting experts, The New York Times reconstructed in detail the minutes leading to Mr. Floyd’s death. Our video shows officers taking a series of actions that violated the policies of the Minneapolis Police Department and turned fatal, leaving Mr. Floyd unable to breathe, even as he and onlookers called out for help.
通过整合路人拍摄的视频、监控录像以及审阅官方文件和咨询专家，《纽约时报》详细重现了弗洛伊德去世前的几分钟。我们的视频显示，即便弗洛伊德和周围的人都在大声呼救，警察仍采取了一系列行动致使弗洛伊德无法呼吸，这些行动违反了明尼阿波利斯警察局的政策，且导致了致命的后果。
The day after Mr. Floyd’s death, the Police Department fired all four of the officers involved in the episode, and on Friday the Hennepin County attorney, Mike Freeman, announced murder and manslaughter charges against Derek Chauvin, the officer who can be seen most clearly in witness videos pinning Mr. Floyd to the ground. Mr. Chauvin, who is white, kept his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, according to the criminal complaint against him. Our video shows that Mr. Chauvin did not remove his knee even after Mr. Floyd lost consciousness, and for a full minute after paramedics arrived at the scene.
弗洛伊德死后第二天，警察部门开除了与这起事件有关的全部四名警官。周五，亨内平县的法官迈克·弗里曼(Mike Freeman)对德里克·沙文(Derek Chauvin)做出谋杀和过失杀人的指控。在目击者视频中，能够清楚地看到沙文把弗洛伊德按倒在地。刑事指控书中指出，这名白人警官把他的膝盖压在弗洛伊德的脖子上长达8分46秒。我们的视频显示，即便在弗洛伊德已经失去意识后，沙文也没有移开他的膝盖，甚至在急救人员抵达现场后的整整一分钟内仍是如此。
The three other former officers, Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao — all of whom can be seen in our video participating in Mr. Floyd’s arrest — remain under investigation.
另外三名警官托马斯·莱恩(Thomas Lane)，J·亚历山大·昆(J. Alexander Kueng)和投·邵(Tou Thao)仍在接受调查，从我们的视频中可以看到，他们全部参与了对弗洛伊德的逮捕。