A former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd has been convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter.
Tou Thao, who already had been convicted in federal court of violating Floyd's civil rights, was the last of four former officers facing judgment in state court in Floyd's killing. He rejected a plea agreement and, instead of going to trial, let Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill decide the verdict based on written filings by each side and evidence presented in previous cases.
Chauvin, the senior officer at the scene, was convicted of murder and manslaughter in April 2021 and later pleaded guilty in the federal case. Two other officers - J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane - pleaded guilty to state charges of aiding and abetting manslaughter and were convicted with Thao in their federal case.
“Nearly three years after George was killed, the family and Minneapolis community continue to heal as the criminal justice system prevails. With each of these measures of justice, it is even more so demonstrated that police brutality is an illegal - and punishable - act,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump and his team said in a statement.
Cahill based his decision on exhibits and transcripts from Chauvin's murder trial, which he presided over, and the federal civil rights trial of Thao, Kueng and Lane. Thao was specifically convicted then of depriving Floyd of his right to medical care and of failing to intervene and stop Chauvin. Cahill wrote that he focused on the evidence that pertained to Thao and not on the other officers or their pleas and guilty verdicts.
Thao acknowledged he heard onlookers becoming more anxious about Floyd's condition and that he could hear Floyd saying, “I can't breathe.” But Thao said he didn't know there was anything seriously wrong with him even as an ambulance took him away.
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