BREAKING: Ex-Minneapolis cops found guilty for violating George Floyd's civil rights. MORE ON THE STORY:
in a trial in Hennepin County last year. He pled guilty to two federal civil rights charges in December. Both involved using unreasonable force, one for Floyd and the other for a similar, though not fatal, knee restraint on a teenager in 2017.A key point that jurors had to weigh in the charges against the Thao, Kueng and Lane was if the ex-officers acted "willfully.
Prosecutors argued that if the untrained onlookers could recognize that Floyd needed help, crying out that Floyd was not breathing and pleading to check his pulse, then certainly the trained officers had to know the same. Lane is only charged with failing to provide aid, but his defense argued that he did try. Lane called the ambulance after Floyd cut his face during the struggle. Lane also twice asked about rolling Floyd on his side. Chauvin told him no the first time. He did not respond to the second.
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