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3 former police officers convicted of rights violations in George Floyd killing
Three former Minneapolis police officers have been convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights.www.latimes.com
Three former Minneapolis police officers were convicted Thursday of violating George Floyd’s civil rights.
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man was handcuffed and facedown on the street on May 25, 2020.
Thao and Lane were also charged with failing to intervene to stop Chauvin.
Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back, Lane held his legs and Thao kept bystanders at bay.
Kueng and Lane both said they deferred to Chauvin as the senior officer at the scene. Thao testified that he relied on the other officers to care for Floyd’s medical needs as his attention was elsewhere.
Conviction of a federal civil rights violation that results in death is punishable by life in prison or even death, but such sentences are extremely rare. The former officers will remain free on bond pending sentencing.
Prosecutors told jurors during closing arguments that the three officers “chose to do nothing” as Chauvin squeezed the life out of Floyd. Defense attorneys countered that the officers were too inexperienced, weren’t trained properly and did not willfully violate Floyd’s rights.
All 12 members of the jury — eight women and four men — appeared to be white, although the court has not released demographics such as race or age. A woman who appeared to be of Asian descent was excused Tuesday from the panel without explanation; a man who appeared to be of Asian descent remains as an alternate if one of the current 12 cannot continue.
Lane is white, Kueng is Black and Thao is Hmong American.
That was a sharp contrast to the jury that deliberated the state murder case against Chauvin. That jurors were half white and half nonwhite.
The federal jury pool was selected from people throughout the state, which includes areas much more conservative and less diverse than the Minneapolis area from which Chauvin’s jury was drawn. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter, and later pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge.
Chauvin and Thao went to the scene to help rookies Kueng and Lane after they responded to a call that Floyd used a counterfeit $20 bill at a corner store. Floyd struggled with officers as they tried to put him in a police SUV.
Thao watched bystanders and traffic as Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back and Lane held his legs.
Lane, Kueng and Thao also face a separate trial in June on state charges alleging they aided and abetted murder and manslaughter.
Jury finds three former Minneapolis police officers guilty of federal civil rights violations in the murder of George Floyd
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-02-24/3-ex-cops-convicted-of-rights-violations-in-george-floyd-killing Three former Minneapolis police officers were convicted Thursday of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with...
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MN Human Rights probe finds pattern of racism in Minneapolis Police Department
MPR News Staff
Minneapolis
April 27, 2022 11:00 AM
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights on Wednesday slammed the city of Minneapolis and its police department for what it described as a “pattern or practice of race discrimination in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act.”
The newly released findings from a nearly two-year investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department — a probe launched days after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd — paint a stunning portrait of an agency with a culture of animus toward people of color.
In reviewing body camera video and discipline records, and interviewing community members and officers, investigators reported finding a litany of vile racist and misogynistic slurs made by officers against suspects, community members and even other colleagues.
“It’s going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to get out of this,” Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero told reporters Wednesday of the patterns of behavior her office said it discovered after examining the past 10 years of police reports and data and conducting or reviewing hundreds of interviews.
“Race-based policing is unlawful, and it harms everyone, especially people of color and Indigenous community members, sometimes costing community members their lives,” she said.
Among the troubling behaviors and comments, the report found:
City and police leaders told the Human Rights Department they’ve been thwarted in efforts to address race-based policing in Minneapolis because of “legal or practical limitations imposed under collective bargaining agreements, the arbitration system, or the City Council’s funding decisions.”
‘What Black people have been saying for decades’
Speaking to reporters later in the day, Amelia Huffman, the interim MPD chief, described the report’s conclusions as "deeply concerning” but said the department has been moving forward with reforms for two years, and that would continue.
Saray Garnett-Hochuli, the city’s director of regulatory services, said the report’s findings of racism in the police department didn’t surprise her and wouldn’t surprise other Black people.
“What pains me in this is that we needed a report to validate what Black people have been saying for decades,” she said, noting that her father told her of his experiences with police and prejudice.
“I do look at this as true transformational change,” she said of the report. “I’m not interested in change on the surface. I'm going deep, and I'm going to the root.”
Lucero said Wednesday her agency will work with the city on a consent decree to identify specific changes that need to be made in policing.
Some changes were made following Floyd’s murder. In June 2020, a judge ordered the Minneapolis Police Department to implement immediate changes, including a ban on neck restraints and chokeholds.
However, Lucero’s office found that MPD officers said the department “provided no substantive training to officers” around the neck restraint and chokehold ban until more than a year after it was put in place.
The state human rights investigation is separate from a United States Justice Department inquiry launched last year that’s looking into discrimination within the Minneapolis Police Department and whether it engages in unlawful policing, including during protests.
A Justice Department spokesperson said officials would review the Minnesota report and consider the findings as part of the federal inquiry, although she noted that DOJ is examining issues beyond discriminatory policing.
Since 2003, the city of Minneapolis has paid out more than $80 million in settlements, judgements and claims stemming from allegations of police misconduct.
Two settlements make up the bulk of the money the city has paid out. The $20 million settlement with the family of Justine Ruszczyk, an unarmed 911 caller shot and killed by officer Mohamed Noor in 2017, and the $27 million payout to the family of George Floyd in 2021.
Watch Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero speak on her agency’s report about patterns of racism in the MPD:
Watch Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and city leaders speak to the findings by the Minnesota Human Rights Department:
MPR News Staff
Minneapolis
April 27, 2022 11:00 AM
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights on Wednesday slammed the city of Minneapolis and its police department for what it described as a “pattern or practice of race discrimination in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act.”
The newly released findings from a nearly two-year investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department — a probe launched days after the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd — paint a stunning portrait of an agency with a culture of animus toward people of color.
In reviewing body camera video and discipline records, and interviewing community members and officers, investigators reported finding a litany of vile racist and misogynistic slurs made by officers against suspects, community members and even other colleagues.
“It’s going to take a lot of work by a lot of people to get out of this,” Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero told reporters Wednesday of the patterns of behavior her office said it discovered after examining the past 10 years of police reports and data and conducting or reviewing hundreds of interviews.
“Race-based policing is unlawful, and it harms everyone, especially people of color and Indigenous community members, sometimes costing community members their lives,” she said.
Among the troubling behaviors and comments, the report found:
- MPD officers used covert social media accounts to pose as Black community members to criticize city officials and members of NAACP. That social media work wasn’t part of any criminal investigation, said Lucero.
- MPD officers are more likely to use more severe force against Black people than white people in similar circumstances, and treat Black and white people differently during traffic stops because of race.
- The department teaches an approach to policing “that emphasizes aggression,” helping create a “culture that results in unnecessary escalation and/or excessive force during encounters with community members of all racial backgrounds.”
- “MPD maintains an organizational culture where officers consistently use racist, misogynistic, and otherwise disrespectful language" against suspects and community members, and when that behavior surfaces on body camera video, it makes prosecutions harder “and therefore undermines the criminal justice system.”
- An officer investigating a sexual assault case allegedly said that a man could not be guilty of rape if he and his victim had children together.
City and police leaders told the Human Rights Department they’ve been thwarted in efforts to address race-based policing in Minneapolis because of “legal or practical limitations imposed under collective bargaining agreements, the arbitration system, or the City Council’s funding decisions.”
‘What Black people have been saying for decades’
Speaking to reporters later in the day, Amelia Huffman, the interim MPD chief, described the report’s conclusions as "deeply concerning” but said the department has been moving forward with reforms for two years, and that would continue.
Saray Garnett-Hochuli, the city’s director of regulatory services, said the report’s findings of racism in the police department didn’t surprise her and wouldn’t surprise other Black people.
“What pains me in this is that we needed a report to validate what Black people have been saying for decades,” she said, noting that her father told her of his experiences with police and prejudice.
“I do look at this as true transformational change,” she said of the report. “I’m not interested in change on the surface. I'm going deep, and I'm going to the root.”
Lucero said Wednesday her agency will work with the city on a consent decree to identify specific changes that need to be made in policing.
Some changes were made following Floyd’s murder. In June 2020, a judge ordered the Minneapolis Police Department to implement immediate changes, including a ban on neck restraints and chokeholds.
However, Lucero’s office found that MPD officers said the department “provided no substantive training to officers” around the neck restraint and chokehold ban until more than a year after it was put in place.
The state human rights investigation is separate from a United States Justice Department inquiry launched last year that’s looking into discrimination within the Minneapolis Police Department and whether it engages in unlawful policing, including during protests.
A Justice Department spokesperson said officials would review the Minnesota report and consider the findings as part of the federal inquiry, although she noted that DOJ is examining issues beyond discriminatory policing.
Since 2003, the city of Minneapolis has paid out more than $80 million in settlements, judgements and claims stemming from allegations of police misconduct.
Two settlements make up the bulk of the money the city has paid out. The $20 million settlement with the family of Justine Ruszczyk, an unarmed 911 caller shot and killed by officer Mohamed Noor in 2017, and the $27 million payout to the family of George Floyd in 2021.
Watch Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero speak on her agency’s report about patterns of racism in the MPD:
Watch Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and city leaders speak to the findings by the Minnesota Human Rights Department:
NBA Bubble Protest Over Shooting Death of Salaythis Melvin
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George Floyd is denied a posthumous pardon by Texas parole board after approval was recommended last year | CNN
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has reversed its decision to grant George Floyd a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug conviction, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
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George Floyd is denied a posthumous pardon by Texas parole board after approval was recommended last year | CNN
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has reversed its decision to grant George Floyd a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug conviction, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
BRUH this is a distraction!!
and the reason politics and politicians
are all about distractions.. TO HELL WITH PROGRESS!!!
and talk like ECONOMIC JUSTICE....
RIP to GEORGE FLOYD...tho..
but its really just all a waste of fuckin time!!
I spent a longer time replying to you than reading the article itself.
I thought to myself 'typical' and moved on.
Ex-cop Thomas Lane gets 3 years in plea deal for aiding Floyd death
ByAMY FORLITI via
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:25AM
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J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of violating the civil rights of George Floyd.
A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years.
Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights. When it comes to the state's case, prosecutors and Lane's attorneys had agreed to a recommended sentence of three years, and prosecutors agreed to allow him to serve that penalty at the same time as his federal sentence, and in a federal prison.
Wednesday's sentencing hearing was held remotely. Lane appeared via video from the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood, the low-security federal prison camp in Littleton, Colorado.
Floyd, 46, died in May 2020 after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on Floyd's neck as the Black man repeatedly said he couldn't breathe. Lane, who is white, held down Floyd's legs. J. Alexander Kueng, who is Black, knelt on Floyd's back, and Tou Thao, who is Hmong American, kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint.
The killing, captured on widely viewed bystander video, sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.
Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter and was given a 22 1/2-year state sentence in 2021. He also pleaded guilty to a federal count of violating Floyd's civil rights. His state and federal sentences are being served at the same time.
Kueng and Thao were also convicted on federal civil rights charges and were sentenced to three and 3 1/2 years, respectively. They have not yet reported to federal prison, and are scheduled to go to trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter in October.
ByAMY FORLITI via
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 10:25AM
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J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of violating the civil rights of George Floyd.
A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years.
Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights. When it comes to the state's case, prosecutors and Lane's attorneys had agreed to a recommended sentence of three years, and prosecutors agreed to allow him to serve that penalty at the same time as his federal sentence, and in a federal prison.
Wednesday's sentencing hearing was held remotely. Lane appeared via video from the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood, the low-security federal prison camp in Littleton, Colorado.
Floyd, 46, died in May 2020 after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on Floyd's neck as the Black man repeatedly said he couldn't breathe. Lane, who is white, held down Floyd's legs. J. Alexander Kueng, who is Black, knelt on Floyd's back, and Tou Thao, who is Hmong American, kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint.
The killing, captured on widely viewed bystander video, sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.
Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter and was given a 22 1/2-year state sentence in 2021. He also pleaded guilty to a federal count of violating Floyd's civil rights. His state and federal sentences are being served at the same time.
Kueng and Thao were also convicted on federal civil rights charges and were sentenced to three and 3 1/2 years, respectively. They have not yet reported to federal prison, and are scheduled to go to trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter in October.
Interesting…
Derek Chauvin asks judge to throw out murder convictions in George Floyd's death
Chauvin was convicted on three counts.
ByKiara Alfonseca
January 18, 2023, 11:14 AM
abcnews.go.com
Derek Chauvin's attorney argued Minnesota should throw out his state murder conviction in the death of George Floyd in a Wednesday hearing.
The court has 90 days to make a decision on the appeal.
The former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in June 2021 after he was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Chauvin was found guilty of pressing his knee against Floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes, resulting in Floyd's death in May 2020. The death triggered a wave of protests against police misconduct and a racial reckoning nationwide.
Chauvin's attorney, William F. Mohrman, will argue that pretrial publicity "was more extensive than in any trial ever in Minnesota," and that publicity, ongoing civil unrest, alleged exclusion of evidence and "misconduct" from the prosecution led to an unfair trial, according to court documents.
Mohrman cites the local death of Daunte Wright, a Black man killed by police while Chauvin's trial was pending; Minneapolis' $27 million settlement with Floyd's family; and the exclusion of evidence concerning Floyd's past arrest as laying the foundation for an unfavorable trial outcome.
Mohrman is also questioning whether Chauvin's third-degree murder should be overturned "because this charge allowed the state to introduce evidence of Chauvin's 'depraved mind' which is irrelevant to unintentional second degree murder."
The appellant brief, filed last year, requests the state "either reverse his conviction, reverse and remand for a new trial in a new venue or remand for re-sentencing."
Chauvin was also sentenced to 21 years in prison on federal civil rights charges after pleading guilty to violating Floyd's civil rights and using unreasonable and excessive force, even after he was aware Floyd had lost consciousness and a pulse.
Chauvin was convicted on three counts.
ByKiara Alfonseca
January 18, 2023, 11:14 AM
Derek Chauvin asks judge to throw out murder convictions in George Floyd's death
Derek Chauvin asks to throw out murder convictions in Wednesday.
Derek Chauvin's attorney argued Minnesota should throw out his state murder conviction in the death of George Floyd in a Wednesday hearing.
The court has 90 days to make a decision on the appeal.
The former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in June 2021 after he was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Chauvin was found guilty of pressing his knee against Floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes, resulting in Floyd's death in May 2020. The death triggered a wave of protests against police misconduct and a racial reckoning nationwide.
Chauvin's attorney, William F. Mohrman, will argue that pretrial publicity "was more extensive than in any trial ever in Minnesota," and that publicity, ongoing civil unrest, alleged exclusion of evidence and "misconduct" from the prosecution led to an unfair trial, according to court documents.
Mohrman cites the local death of Daunte Wright, a Black man killed by police while Chauvin's trial was pending; Minneapolis' $27 million settlement with Floyd's family; and the exclusion of evidence concerning Floyd's past arrest as laying the foundation for an unfavorable trial outcome.
Mohrman is also questioning whether Chauvin's third-degree murder should be overturned "because this charge allowed the state to introduce evidence of Chauvin's 'depraved mind' which is irrelevant to unintentional second degree murder."
The appellant brief, filed last year, requests the state "either reverse his conviction, reverse and remand for a new trial in a new venue or remand for re-sentencing."
Chauvin was also sentenced to 21 years in prison on federal civil rights charges after pleading guilty to violating Floyd's civil rights and using unreasonable and excessive force, even after he was aware Floyd had lost consciousness and a pulse.
Derek Chauvin's appeal for new trial denied: 'Chauvin crossed the line,' court says
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin will not get a new trial for murdering George Floyd, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled.
Derek Chauvin's appeal for new trial denied: 'Chauvin crossed the line,' court says
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin will not get a new trial for murdering George Floyd, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled.
If my friend was killing someone, and I stood there and let him do it, people would want to hold me accountable with "why didn't you stop your friend?".
If you were sworn to uphold the law and didn't stop your friend from breaking the law, yo ass should go straight to jail.
Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd, has been sentenced to 4 years and 9 months. He spoke at length about growing in his Christian faith, but showed little remorse and denied any responsibility in Floyd's death.
DAMN
They didn't stab him enough, bitch ass CAC should be dead!
The job still isn't done though, because he's still alive.
Don't say damn, say YEAH!
Right, this should be a celebration.
Pig got poked and that's just
The start of his karmic paycheck..
Everybody getting what they deserve and we ain't seen nothing yet wait till 2024...
The start of his karmic paycheck..
Everybody getting what they deserve and we ain't seen nothing yet wait till 2024...
Pork chops.
I'm thinking about making some after work tomorrow...
Well he can breath right?