George Floyd transcript reveals last moments: ‘Momma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I’m dead’

George Floyd said he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times, called out for his children and late mother and said officers would “kill” him before he died in Minneapolis police custody, new evidence has shown.

Mr Floyd, a black man, died on May 25 when a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death has unleashed a massive wave of protests against systemic racism and police brutality in the United States and inspired demonstrations around the world.

Video of his death went viral and showed Mr Floyd shouting “I can’t breathe” and calling for his mother as he suffocated.

But transcripts of the police officers’ body camera footage, filed on Tuesday in Minnesota state court by Thomas Lane – one of the officers involved in Mr Floyd’s death – has revealed new details about his final moments.

When the officers arrested him, Mr Floyd begged them not to put him in the police car, telling them he was claustrophobic and in physical distress.

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