![]() The former officers will remain free on bond pending sentencing.ĭuring the monthlong trial, prosecutors sought to show that the officers violated their training, including when they failed to move Floyd or give him CPR. ![]() Thao testified that he relied on the other officers to care for Floyd’s medical needs as his attention was elsewhere.Ĭonviction of a federal civil rights violation that results in death is punishable by life in prison or even death, but such sentences are extremely rare. Kueng and Lane both said they deferred to Chauvin as the senior officer at the scene. Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back, Lane held his legs and Thao kept bystanders back. Chauvin was convicted of murder last year in state court and pleaded guilty in December in the federal case. The videotaped killing sparked protests in Minneapolis that spread around the globe as part of reckoning over racial injustice. Thao and Lane were also charged with failing to intervene to stop Chauvin. ![]() 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. (AP) - Three former Minneapolis police officers were convicted Thursday of violating George Floyd’s civil rights.
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