3 EX-MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICERS GUILTY OF VIOLATING GEORGE FLOYD’S CIVIL RIGHTS
From left: former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. Photo provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota on June 3, 2020.
NPR.org/Becky Sullivan—February 24, 2022—A federal jury found three former Minneapolis police officers guilty of depriving George Floyd of his civil rights when they helped with the restraint that led to his death.
The jury found that Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao all deprived Floyd of his right to medical care, and that two of them failed to intervene as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd…
