Posted on 02/24/2022 2:53:13 PM PST by Eleutheria5
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers have been convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights.
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man was handcuffed and facedown on the street on May 25, 2020.
Thao and Lane were also charged with failing to intervene to stop Chauvin.
The videotaped killing sparked protests in Minneapolis that spread around the globe as part of reckoning over racial injustice. Chauvin was convicted of murder last year in state court and pleaded guilty in December in the federal case.
Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back, Lane held his legs and Thao kept bystanders back.
Kueng and Lane both said they deferred to Chauvin as the senior officer at the scene. Thao testified that he relied on the other officers to care for Floyd’s medical needs as his attention was elsewhere.
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What was the precise “civil right” that was violated by each of them?
Chauvin was the senior officer at the scene so it should be difficult to charge other officers with anything. They should lose the badge but that’s about it.
I’d have been surprised if they were found Innocent.
The verdict was pre-ordained.
Notice even in the article it first says neck then it says back.
Should have left him to die in his own car.
Don’t know. That would be in the judge’s jury charge, for the reading of which their lawyers were present to object and propose.
Hope the civil suit bankrupts Minna$$olisp! 500M$ awta be good.
How many times did he say “i can not breathe” BEFORE the cop even arrived on scene?
Teh. Back of the neck!
another Minneapolis lynch mob decision.
Just start with the fact that the officer’s knee was not pressed onto Floyd’s neck. Add he had enough drugs in him to stop his breathing, he said he couldn’t breathe before he was on the ground ya da ya da yahoo. This was a complete political lynching of the officers.
What? And miss all the fun?
“...charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care.”
None of them could have saved this idiot, but O.J. really did kill those people. The Left is stuck on stupid lies.
Will they be put in gen pop after sentencing?
Outrageous.
“They should lose the badge but that’s about it.”
For what exactly? What facts prompt you to say such a thing?
No sentencing date, but it sounds like the sentences could be just about anything the judge decides.
The rule of law is dead.
Long live the rule of law.
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