That is the voice of an African American man pleading with a police officer to take his knee off of his neck while he was being detained yesterday in Minneapolis.

The Facebook video shows an officer, as you said, with his knee on the back of Floyd's neck.

Here's what he had to say about the officer seen in the Facebook video with his knee on Floyd's neck this morning.

NELSON: Now, the mayor also just tweeted in the last hour that four responding MPD officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been terminated.

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