{"id":21269,"date":"2022-02-24T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2022-02-24T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:08:10","slug":"ex-police-officers-guilty-in-george-floyd-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/02\/24\/ex-police-officers-guilty-in-george-floyd-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-police officers guilty in George Floyd death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three ex-Minneapolis policemen present at the death of George Floyd denied the unarmed black man of his civil rights, a jury has found.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The officers were charged with showing “deliberate indifference to [Mr Floyd’s] serious medical needs” during the attempted arrest in May 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tou Thao, 36, J Alexander Kueng, 28, and Thomas Lane, 38, all testified in their own defence in the trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They said they did not realise Mr Floyd needed medical care at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Violating a person’s civil rights carries various punishments but prosecutors have recommended 25 years in federal prison for each man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, is currently serving a 22-and-a-half-year sentence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chauvin was found guilty of Mr Floyd’s murder last April. He also pleaded guilty in December to his own federal civil rights charges as part of a plea agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Video footage of the arrest shows Keung and Lane assisting Chauvin by helping to hold Mr Floyd down. Thao, meanwhile, kept concerned bystanders away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Over four weeks of testimony, prosecutors argued that “human decency and common sense” should have compelled the men to take action to prevent Mr Floyd’s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“It wasn’t a split-second use of force like a gunshot. Not 30 seconds, not a minute, several minutes – 569 seconds,” said Assistant US Attorney Manda Sertich.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But lawyers for the defence claimed they were listening to a commander with seniority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chauvin, a 26-year veteran of the force, was a field training officer to both Lane and Kueng.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When asked why he did not tell Chauvin to get his knee off Mr Floyd’s neck, Officer Thao testified: “I think I would trust a 19-year veteran to figure it out.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A 12-person jury deliberated for about 13 hours before returning their verdict on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In June, the trio of defendants will be back, this time in state court, to face criminal charges for aiding and abetting Chauvin’s actions.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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