the anguish from the employees and christopher martin on that stand. martin said the police officer pushed his coworker unprovoked the prosecution appearing to try to pre-but the offense, painting a picture of why not arrest him and he would still be alive? remember, george floyd at one point was in a police vehicle and then removed from it shortly before derek chauvin put a knee on george floyd's neck then it was the defense's turn focusing on george floyd acting like he was high and asking christopher martin why he turned away another person, having turned down another counterfeit bill that day. but he accepted the one from george floyd he said he thought george floyd did not know it was counterfeit. that is another detail we did not know we go to gabe gutierrez who is in minneapolis, and former prosecutor paul butler he's also the author of "chokehold." gabe, my understanding is you have breaking news about one of the jurors what can you tell us >> reporter: hi there, katy if you're watching our coverage on msnbc, you might remember there was a five

we went straight to the testimony of christopher martin. the defense, not re-cross examining her. i want to go to our legal panel. paul butler is here, an msnbc legal analyst. he is the author of "chokehold pl policing black men." paul, let me start with the obvious question why do you think that the firefighter, the emt who was so powerful yesterday was not brought back today >> you know, at the end of the cross examination, the defense was kind of floundering. they established that she's not an expert on police use of force practices. she was combative. she was giving them a hard time. we can be sure that the prosecutors had a discussion with her last night telling her to chill out again, with witnesses for the prosecution of a murder trial, their sense is that the defense attorney is trying to help a murderer go free so often, they are combative but that doesn't look good in front of the jury, especially if the witness is reprimanded i think probably the prosecution and the defense were happy not to have her back although, at the end of the day, she was a very effective witness

this witness here, christopher martin, testifying that he had a conversation with george floyd and in that moment, he said he thought that george floyd was high it took him a little bit of time to answer his question, but i think what really stands out here is this idea that george floyd's friend earlier in the day tried to purchase an item inside this store with fake bills, with counterfeit bills. and christopher martin testified that he didn't sell it to him because it looked like he was scheming fast forward a little bit into the day when george floyd goes to make that purchase of that pack of cigarettes and christopher martin's testimony was that he didn't believe that george floyd knew that the money he was spending, that $20 bill, was fake he went ahead and sold it to him. it was only after george floyd left to go back into his vehicle that he thought maybe i should tell my manager about this, or else that was going to have to come out of his paycheck his manager then told him and another employee to go out and try to get george floyd to come back into the store. there were two

you heard christopher martin talking about his guilt. you heard darnella frazier, the 17-year-old girl, who filmed the video, without which we probably would not even be at the point of being at this trial, saying she apologizes nightly to george floyd and wishes that she could have done more than what she did. you also saw, you know, that final witness, who was saying, you know, he felt compelled to make the video, but also was filming in spite of the fact that he was scared or worried that he might be attracting police attention for himself and he really wasn't trying to do that. and christopher martin saying that he deleted that video because he didn't want to attract undue attention. he didn't want to get his mother involved so, you know, these folks, despite being reluctant, still felt camompelled to come forwar because they felt like they were seeing something happening that was wrong. >> you know, errin, i would like you to address something wider here i think this testimony is also serving as a reminder of just how traumatic thes

this is the first time the video has been made public christopher martin was has been testifying about selling mr. floyd a pack of cigarettes and had a conversation about what sports he had played. i am joined now by shaq in minneapolis. i think the next witness is seated let's listen in. >> could you take your mask down we are going to test out how the microphone picks you up by having you spell your full name. christopher, velfrey >> it sounds like it will work fine >> good morning mr. velfrey. zboo >> good morning. >> how old are you >> 45. >> tell us the general area you live >> south minneapolis >> may 25th of 2020 is where i lived? no >> is that where you lived on that day >> yeah, in south minneapolis. >> how long had you lived in south minneapolis. >> about three years >> are you familiar with the area of 38th and chicago >> yes >> is there a store at the corner of 38th and chicago >> yes >> at least on may 25th there was. is there also a restaurant there? >> yes >> what was the restaurant what w >> what was the name of it >> yes >> i don't know to tell you the truth. >> did yo

his name is christopher martin and he's 19 years old. floyd bought cigarettes from him the day that he died giving him a $20 bill and martin testified today that he was suspicious, but because of a store policy that made employees pay for counterfeit bills out of their own paycheck, martin reported it to his manager, a decision that set off a chain of events that would end with chauvin kneeling on floyd's neck for more than nine minutes the violent, brutal death of george floyd and the national outrage over his killing that reverberated far beyond minneapolis has undoubtedly traumatized the floyd family and their loved ones what we're seeing up close this week is the trauma experienced by those who happened to witness the final chapter of his life. to be clear, they are not at fault. they were powerless in the face of armed police officers to even intervene. there are people who happened to be on that exact street corner on the day that george floyd was handcuffed and pinned to the ground either they happened to work at cup foods or like

joyce, this is christopher martin talking about how he felt let's watch this >> i just said earlier he was just kind of shacking his head, putting his hands in the air like why is this happening to me i don't want to happen sort of thing. >> and so he appeared to be awake? >> correct. >> what was the end result of that conversation? >> they did not -- george floyd did not choose to come into the store. >> do you know what the manager decided to do about that >> he instructed my co-worker to call the police. >> saw you standing there with your hands on the head for a while. correct? >> correct. >> what was going through your mind during that time period >> disbelief and guilt. >> okay. why guilt? >> if i would have justnot tooken the bill this could have been avoided. >> joyce, what's so compelling there to me as david just said, every person in this chain of tragic events feels culpability. everyone articulated guilt and remorse for their little piece of, the bystander that couldn't do more than take a video or the child that pleaded with police to take the knee off or the offduty emt

christopher martin m-a-r-t-i-n. >> thank you mr. martin, how old are you? >> 19. >> can you tell the jurors where you live now >> bloomington, minnesota. >> taking you back to may 25th of 2020 last year. where were you living at that time >> i was living above cup foods in the apartments on 38th street >> how long at that time had you been living there? >> about four months >> who did you live there with my mom and my sister >> so you were pretty familiar with the area of 38th and chicago? >> yes. >> on that date were you in school at the time >> no. >> did you go ton do some schooling after that >> so i went to minneapolis to do my school online and i would take the bus home. >> did you also have a job were you working at the time >> yes, i worked at cup foods. >> was it full-time or part-time? >> full time >> what kind of shifts did you pull there >> usually every day except wednesday and sunday 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. or close. >> what kinds of things did you do >> i was a cashier i would work in tobacco if someone came in, or i could help if people want today