George Floyd’s girlfriend on Thursday testified in court.
“I went to go pick Floyd up from his house that night. I thought I was taking him to work. He wasn’t feeling good. His stomach really hurt. He was doubled over in pain. Just wasn’t feeling well. And he said he had to go to the hospital. So I took him straight to the hospital,” Courteney Ross, 45, said in court in Minneapolis.
“We went to the ER, and they were checking him out in the ER. And it was getting late. And I had to get home to my son. So I left.”
Ross affirmed she later learned that Floyd had overdosed. She said she did not learn what caused the overdose.
Ross was testifying during day four of Derek Chauvin’s trial. Chauvin, a former police officer, was one of four to respond to a 911 call concerning counterfeit money allegedly being used at a convenience store in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.
Floyd, who was accused of using the money, resisted officers’ attempts to put him into the back of a patrol car. They then pinned him to the ground. One, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck to keep him in place.
Floyd, 46, experienced cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by officers, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office, which determined the manner of death was homicide.
Floyd had high levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, according to substance screening, and that drug use possibly contributed to the death, along with a history of heart disease.
Ross told jurors that both she and Floyd were addicted to opioids, an addiction that started when they received prescriptions for chronic pain they suffered.
“We got addicted and, and tried really hard to break that addiction many times,” she said.
who cares, what ever... this is gonna make the OJ trial look like the scopes monkey trial