BREAKING: Former Minneapolis officer Tou Thao was sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison on state charges for his role in George Floyd's killing.
Tou Thao has testified he merely served as a"human traffic cone" when he held back concerned bystanders who gathered as former Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes while the Black man pleaded for his life on May 25, 2020.Floyd's killing touched off protests worldwide and forced a national reckoning of police brutality and racism.of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
"There is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Thao's actions were objectively unreasonable from the perspective of a reasonable police officer, when viewed under the totality of the circumstances," Cahill wrote. Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao, left, and his attorney Robert Paule arrive for sentencing for violating George Floyds civil rights outside the Federal Courthouse Wednesday, July 27, 2022 in St. Paul, Minn.He concluded:"Thao's actions were even more unreasonable in light of the fact that he was under a duty to intervene to stop the other officers' excessive use of force and was trained to render medical aid.
Thao rejected a plea bargain on the state charge, saying"it would be lying" to plead guilty when he didn't think he was in the wrong. He instead agreed to let Cahill decide the case based on evidence from Chauvin's 2021 murder trial and the federal civil rights trial in 2022 of Thao and former Officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander.
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