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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All law enforcement just needs to abandon the place, let them work it out out on their own.
I do need to add, given the performance of so many men in blue, I am not inclined to care that they are now being targeted. Seems many are more than willing to play the enforcer for tyranny.
We had their backs and when things get rough enough are turning their backs on freedom to have me re-thinking my support.
There was an ambulance and a trained paramedic team on scene, and they wouldn’t let them have Floyd? Honestly...
Yeah. They could have gone for donuts instead.
“What was the precise “civil right” that was violated by each of them?”
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I would guess fifth amendment: “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”.
The outrage is right here.
Why would any sane person want to be a cop now-a-days?
Unbelievable.
Didn’t say,back of the neck.
Humungous is social distancing.
Floyd.. bad guy. Cops.. bad guys.
Makes no sense to pick a side.
American political show trial
That’s why he made it into the future...
I imagine a lot of folks are rethinking the option.
Bogus.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!! So predictable.
More scapegoats.
Being around a black guy dying from a drug overdose while someone filmed it.
Runup to an election year. They had to motivate their base, and this is how it's done. Media liars spread lies and get everyone upset, then they go out to vote with fury in November.
It worked for the Deep State and they managed to create enough anger to disguise how they stole the election.
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masked man photo....
“Covid? Doesn’t worry me.”
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