{"id":22858,"date":"2022-07-22T07:04:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=22858"},"modified":"2022-07-22T07:17:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:17:51","slug":"thomas-lane-ex-policeman-jailed-for-role-in-george-floyd-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/07\/22\/thomas-lane-ex-policeman-jailed-for-role-in-george-floyd-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Lane: Ex-policeman jailed for role in George Floyd killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An ex-policeman has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose 2020 Minneapolis death led to protests.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thomas Lane, one of the officers who tried to arrest Mr Floyd, was sentenced following a conviction in February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lane, a white man, was found guilty of showing “deliberate indifference” to the medical needs of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Federal prosecutors had called for Lane to face more than five years in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But his lawyers had asked for just over two years on the grounds that Lane had suggested pushing Mr Floyd onto his side and had attempted to resuscitate him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s terrible,” one of George Floyd’s brothers, Philonise Floyd, told reporters after the sentencing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“This whole criminal system needs to be torn down and rebuilt.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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