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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Are the Victims of the black lives matter riots having their civil rights cases presented by the US attorney?
Floyd?
SPJNK.
It has been the law for decades, if not centuries, that a prisoner in custody has a right to food, water and necessary medical care from those holding him.
a prisoner in custody has a right to food, water and necessary medical care from those holding him.
Yes, it would have been much better for everyone involved had they turned him over to the ambulance crew that was standing by.
Sigh. Wrong again.
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