Disbelief and guilt. If I would have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided.

—Christopher Martin, the 19-year-old store clerk who had served George Floyd, testifying as witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. Martin described how he felt seeing his customer crying out in pain as he is forcibly held prone on the street outside the store, by a police officer kneeling on his neck. Martin’s testimony was quoted in a report in the New York Times.