Then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin used an unreasonable amount of force on George Floyd, who was accused of using counterfeit money and then resisted arrest, an expert told jurors in Chauvin’s trial on April 12. “Both the knee across Mr. Floyd’s neck and the prone restraint were unreasonable, excessive, and contrary to generally accepted police practices,” Seth Stoughton, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who was paid to testify by the prosecution, said in Hennepin County’s courthouse. “No reasonable officer would have believed that that was an appropriate, acceptable, or reasonable use of force,” added Stoughton, who worked for five years as a police officer in Tallahassee, Florida. Chauvin and three other officers on May 25, 2020, encountered Floyd in Minneapolis following a 911 call regarding the use of money believed to be fake. Floyd was handcuffed but resisted being placed into a patrol …