This photo provided by the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office shows former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was arrested Friday, May 29, 2020, in the Memorial Day death of George Floyd.

A day after Derek Chauvin was released from prison, a Minnesota judge ruled that the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd will be allowed to leave the state for his own safety.

Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill ruled Thursday afternoon that Chauvin, the [Minneapolis cop who fatally kneeled](https://www.vice.com/en/article/akzggb/a-cop-kneeled-on-a-black-mans-neck-until-he-said-he-couldnt-breathe-he-died-at-the-hospital) on 44-year-old George Floyd’s neck for more than seven minutes, would be allowed to reside in the neighboring states of North and South Dakota or Iowa until the beginning of his trial in March.

Cahill cited “evidence supporting safety concerns that have arisen in the pretrial conditional release” of Chauvin in his decision according to a [court filing](https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/Order10082020.pdf) from Thursday. He will be supervised by the Minnesota Department of Corrections regardless of which state he decides to wait out his trial.

Still image from police bodycam footage from March 13, 2020, outside Breonna Taylor's apartment in Louisville, Ky.

When Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the result of his office's investigation into the death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, he made what happened on March 13 seem simple: Three officers—now former Louisville Metro Police Department Detective Brett Hankison, Detective Myles Cosgrove, and Sgt. Jon Mattingly—fired their weapons during a botched raid on Taylor's apartment. And none of them could be charged for Taylor's death, because her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired first. The response was immediate, and negative. Protesters took to the streets, insisting this wasn't the justice they’d been marching for every day for months. One grand juror even filed a motion to break the secrecy that normally surrounds grand jury proceedings, alleging that the attorney general was using the grand jury’s decision to shield himself. On October 2, Cameron's office released 15 hours of audio tapes of prosecutors presenting evidence to the grand jury. VICE News has reviewed the tapes in their entirety, as well as much of the investigative file, which was compiled by LMPD investigators and handed over to Cameron's office and includes hundreds of hours of bodycam footage and officer interviews, plus thousands of pages of documents. And together, the tapes and documents tell a much more complicated—and hazy—story than the one Cameron told. In a 22-minute documentary largely comprised of never-before-seen footage, VICE News gives a much more complete sense of what happened on the night Taylor was killed, including the immediate chaos caused by the botched raid, the long list of policy violations that followed, the failure to secure the crime scene, and the inconsistencies and contradictions in testimonies by the officers involved. The documentary also compares what AG Cameron told the public to what the evidence actually shows, and how that evidence was—or in some cases wasn't—presented to the grand jury.

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VICE News has obtained and reviewed a lot of the evidence that was available to Attorney General Daniel Cameron in the Breonna Taylor case. It includes 45 body cameras from the aftermath of the botched raid, along with hundreds of hours of audio and video recordings of interviews with the 7 officers involved, dozens of responding officers, witnesses, and the former police chief, as well as thousands of pages of other documents. 

And together, they tell a different story than the one the public—and maybe even the grand jury—were told.

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The ruling negates one of the original conditions of his release, which mandated that Chauvin not leave the state of Minnesota while he waits for trial. Other conditions of the release included surrendering his weapons, attending all future court dates and not contacting the family of George Floyd.

Earlier this week, Chauvin [posted $1 million bail and was released](https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7wa87/the-cop-who-fatally-kneeled-on-george-floyd-has-been-released-from-prison) after spending four months at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights. The former cop had been staying at the high-security prison since May 31, two days after his arrest. He was the last of the four officers involved in George Floyd’s death to be released on bail.

Chauvin faces second and third-degree murder charges as well as and a charge for second-degree manslaughter.

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