The attorney representing George Floyd’s family said Monday he expects the defense team for the former Minneapolis police officer on trial in connection with Floyd’s death will to “try to assassinate” his character during the trial’s opening arguments. Benjamin Crump, the civil rights attorney representing Floyd’s family, made the remark in multiple interviews on Monday, the first day of the trial in which the defendant, Derek Chauvin, stands accused of murder. “They’re going to say that because he had a trace amount of drugs in his system that that’s what killed him and not what we saw in that video where he was tortured to death,” Crump said. Floyd died last May while in police custody after resisting arrest, with the highly publicized incident—caught on video showing Chauvin detaining Floyd by pressing his knee against his neck—sparking a spate of protests and violent riots. As the trial got underway on Monday, …