David Pinney first claimed to have witnessed friction between George Floyd and Derek Chauvin while all three worked at the same night club, but later admitted he'd mistaken Floyd for another man.
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane had been on the job for just four days when George Floyd died after fellow cop Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.
More than two months before George Floyd begged police for breath on a Minneapolis street, Manuel Ellis suffered the same chilling fate hundreds of miles away in Tacoma, Washington.
“Who do you call when the person who assaulted you is a police officer? Who were they going to believe? I knew it wouldn’t be me,” one of Brett Hankison’s alleged victims posted on social media last week.