A witness for the prosecution recounted the arrest and death of George Floyd during the trial against Derek Chauvin, the white police officer accused of killing him, in Minneapolis on Monday.

Witness Donald Williams, who is a professional mixed martial-arts fighter and security worker, said, "When I first arrived at the scene, Mr. Floyd was vocalising his sorry-ness, his pain and his distress that he was going through. The more that his knee was on his neck, the more you were seeing Floyd fade away, slowly fade away, and like the fish in the bag, you see the eyes slowly pale out and again slowly rolled to the back of his eyes. So this is what I've seen, this is what I've heard."

"His eyes slowly rolled to the back of his head. You see the blood coming out of his nose. You heard him tell them before he stopped speaking 'my stomach hurts'. From there on, he was lifeless, he didn't move, he didn't speak. He didn't have no life in him no more on his body movements," he added.

During the hearing, prosecutor Jerry Blackwell told jurors that Floyd said 27 times that he could not breathe.

Derek Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter and third-degree murder after being filmed kneeling on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, leading to his death.