They were ex-officers when charged.
“Defense attorneys said Kueng, 26, of Plymouth was working his third shift ever as a full-time officer and Lane, 37, of St. Paul was working his fourth day as a full-time officer on the day they encountered Floyd.”
Two rookie officers were paired together? They were the first to answer the 911 call. Lane decided to cuff Floyd, but needed Kueng assistance. It looked to me that Floyd was resisting arrest. Why did Lane make the decision to cuff Floyd in the first place? They never cuffed the two passengers in Floyd’s car. No one ever talks about them.
A third unnamed officer arrives three minutes later in a park police car #830. He takes a report from Lane, gets back in his car, phones it in, probably looking for priors.
As Lane and Kueng walk Floyd across the street, the third officer, does a U-turn in his car, just enough to block the surveillance camera. But just before he parks, it looks like Lane and Kueng are struggling to get Floyd in the back seat of their car.
At this point, the unnamed officer goes back to Floyd’s car, and the two unnamed passengers, who are sitting outside the car. Although it looks like the male tries to retrieve something from the car.
At this point, Chauvin and Thao show up. It looks like Floyd goes in one side of the back seat of the patrol car, and comes out the other side. At that point, Floyd is pinned down on the ground. It looks like he is resisting arrest to me. But unless someone else has a video, we can’t know for sure what happened. The body cams could provide a lot of unknown evidence, both audio and video.
That unnamed park police officer really dodged a major bullet. But he could provide some evidence in the case.