A coalition of news media organizations and attorneys for two of the officers involved have said making the videos public would provide a more complete picture of what happened to Floyd.

The statement and others from Derek Chauvin, the officer who pressed his knee into Floyd's neck on May 25, came from transcripts for the body camera of two other officers at the scene.

The footage recorded by body cameras that officers wore on their chests as they were arresting Floyd is expected to show even more about what the officers and Floyd were doing and saying during that fateful encounter, and it could shape how the officers' cases play out in court.