JUST IN: Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane have been found guilty of violating George Floyd's civil rights by a US federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota Former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were found guilty of violating George Floyd's civil rights by a federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday.
The 12 jurors -- four men and eight women -- found Lane, Kueng and Thao guilty of depriving Floyd of his civil rights by showing deliberate indifference to his medical needs as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd for more than 9 minutes on May 25, 2020, ultimately killing him. The jurors also found Thao and Kueng guilty of an additional charge for failing to intervene to stop Chauvin.
How the fatal arrest of George Floyd unfolded 04:33The officers testified in the trial The three officers' federal trial began on January 24. Darnella Frazier, the now 18-year-old girl who recorded the cell phone video of Floyd's death, testified she was accompanying her cousin to the Cup Foods store when they encountered officers and a man on the ground who was saying,"I can't breathe.
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