An expert testifying in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin told the court on Tuesday that Chauvin’s knee restraint of George Floyd was “justified” and not deadly. “I felt that Derek Chauvin was justified, was acting with objective reasonableness, following Minneapolis Police Department policy and current standards of law enforcement in his interactions with Mr. Floyd,” Barry Brodd, a use-of-force expert brought in by Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson, said in the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minnesota. Asked if Chauvin’s force was deadly, Brodd said it was not. “I’ll give you an example that I used to teach my academy classes. So, officers respond to a domestic violence situation, and the suspect is still there, and he fights with the officers and the officers are justified in using a taser to overcome this person’s non-compliance. They tase the individual and [the] individual falls to the ground, strikes their …