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-War on Police-

Ex-Minneapolis police officer found guilty of aiding in George Floyd killing

2023-05-03

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao has been found guilty of aiding and abetting in the 2020 killing of Saint George Floyd

...The patron saint of Minneapolis...
, a Black man who died after his neck was pinned to the ground by another officer’s knee during a botched arrest.

The charge against Thao, one of four officers involved in the arrest, was the final outstanding criminal case related to Floyd’s killing, which in 2020 ignited protests over racism and police brutality across the US and around the world .

Thao had opted to allow Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill decide whether he was guilty or not guilty, waiving his right to a trial by jury. Cahill’s 177-page decision was posted on the court’s website on Tuesday morning. Thao is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 7.

Derek Chauvin, a white officer captured on cellphone video kneeling on the handcuffed Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, was found guilty of murdering Floyd in 2021.

With Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck, and Lane and Kueng restraining his knees and buttocks, Floyd pleaded for his life before falling limp.

While Floyd was pinned, Thao stood to one side and kept back a small crowd of people, including an off-duty firefighter, who repeatedly yelled at the police to get off Floyd and check his pulse. Police were arresting Floyd on suspicion of his using a counterfeit $20 bill at a nearby store.

"Based on his training, Thao was actively aware that the restraint he witnessed grossly deviated from the standard of care, was extremely dangerous, and risked Floyd’s death," Cahill wrote in his decision.

Two other former officers, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, pleaded guilty last year to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter, the same charge Thao faced.

Cahill presided over jury trials for Chauvin, Lane and Kueng. In written arguments submitted to the judge in January, prosecutors from the Minnesota attorney general’s office said Thao, a nine-year veteran of the force, knew the deadly risks posed by the way his colleagues restrained Floyd. Thao had a duty to intervene and render medical aid if needed, they said.

"Thao could see Floyd’s life slowly ebbing away," the prosecutors wrote, saying his conduct was callous. "Yet Thao made a conscious decision to actively participate in Floyd’s death."

Posted by:Fred

#4 The only way Thao could be guilty of aiding in the George Floyd killing would be if he somehow helped Floyd to ingest fentanyl that day.

But looking at Thao's picture gives us a glimpse into the hierarchical structure of ethnic groups in this country. Thao's ethnic group in that hierarchy is obviously not as high as Floyd's. Maybe they should try rioting more often.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-05-03 12:47

#3 ^^^^^^
The entire long-term strategy behind the Soros support for local DAs and defund the police. Uniformed police locally directed by the same DOJ that has politicized the EFFBEYE! The media, willingly or not, is complicit in selling the need for this since it ALWAYS favors lurid crime over coverage of the blessings of traditional American most of us live.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-05-03 12:06

#2 Recruitment is SUPPOSED to suffer and crime is SUPPOSED to rise. The only solution is obviously a national police force, administered out of DC of course. Can't trust the blood thirsty rubes now can we.

Another casually discussed socialist goal. Rapidly denied in public but relentlessly pursued in fact much in the way of citizen replacement or Cloward/Piven.

Posted by: Cesare 2023-05-03 06:32

#1 Is there any doubt why LE recruitment and retention suffers ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-05-03 02:26

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