St Paul: The three former Minneapolis officers violated the law by failing to stop Chauvin’s crane kill George Floyd during the arrest and indifferent to the dying request of a black man who was handcuffed, a prosecutor said the jury was in a federal statement on Monday.
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Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with violating FLLOYD civil rights during the arrest of a 46-year-old child on the road outside the Minneapolis grocery store in May 2020, a video that triggered protest racism and police.
around the world.
Federal Prosecutor Samantha Trepel, from the Civil Rights Division of the Ministry of Justice M.S., said the defendants had violated their oaths with feeling persistent in floyd.
He said the video captured how to sometimes seemed busy with some gravel nesting in the nearest police car tire than the man below him repeatedly said: “I can’t breathe.” Last year, a former crane crane Chauvin, 45, was found guilty of murder and murder in the death of Floyd at the end of the national trial which was broadcast nationally in April 2021, and a minnesota judge dropped it with 22-1 / 2 years in prison.
Chauvin, who was white, was also charged with his colleagues by the Federal Prosecutor by violating FLLOYD civil rights in their capacity as police officers.
Chauvin changed his request to be guilty of last December.
Thao, Kueng and Lane who can face years in prison if punished, all of them claim to be innocent.
“For more than nine minutes, each of the three defendants made a repeated conscious choice not to act,” Trepel said to the jury.
“They chose not to intervene and stopped Chauvin when he killed a man slowly before their eyes on a public road in the extensive daytime.” He said that the officers had vowed to care for people in their detention, and asked by law to stop Chauvin.
Defense lawyers said the three defendants had the right and task to arrest Floyd because of suspicion he used a fake $ 20 bill to buy cigarettes, and was not responsible for Chauvin’s behavior.
“Mr.
Death Floyd is indeed a tragedy,” Robert Paule, a lawyer for Thao, said in his opening statement, where he described the danger of police officers to face arrest.
“However, a tragedy is not a crime.” Prosecutors tried to convince the jury in the US District Court in St.
Paul that the men intentionally failed to help Floyd during what was called trepel, “slow murder.” Chauvin the charges said someone who was arrested had the right to “free of the indifference of police officers with serious medical needs.” Thao, 36, and Kueng, 28, faced additional calculations in the indictment, who said they intentionally failed to stop Chauvin using excessive strength to prone, handcuffing Floyd, violating floyd rights to be free from unreasonable seizures.
Thao has worked for the Minneapolis Police Department for eight years.
Lane, 38, and Kueng, who helped hold the lower body of Floyd, just joined a few months before the arrest, and Chauvin was their field training officer.
Kueng is a “rookie officer” on his third shift that has been in the workplace and disappointed by his senior with “inadequate training,” his lawyer Thomas Plunkett to the jury.
He grew up in a variety of racial households and hoped to change the police department “from within,” Plunkett said.
The jury will hear from other Minneapolis police officers who will testify that the three defendants were trained in how to manage medical assistance to people in their prisoners, and taught that only moving Floyd to his side could save his life, said Trepel.
They will also hear from some terrible observers who shout at the officers to examine the floyd pulse when he said repeatedly that he could not breathe, said Trepel.
“After Mr.
Floyd lost the ability to speak, the people on the sidewalk stood up for him,” said Trepel Jury.
“They understand just by looking at his body limp, listen to his words and then listen to his silence, unless someone changed what happened, he would die.” After the federal trial, the three men still faced state trials to help and conspire with floyd murder.