A sentence of more than 5 years was proposed by the prosecutors – Which mitigating factor was recognized – Anger at the sentence from the relatives of George Floyd
A US police officer was today sentenced to two and a half years in prison for remaining “passive” during his murder George Floydwhich shocked them USA and the world in May 2020.
Thomas Lane, 39, was found guilty in February by a federal jury of “violating the civil rights” of the 46-year-old African-American, along with two other police colleagues. Minneapolis. All three were accused of failing to provide the necessary assistance to the victim, who had his colleague, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes. The latter was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for this case. Thomas Lane is the first of the other three to be informed of his sentence.
Prosecutors were asking for a prison sentence over 5 years oldbut his attorney asked for a plea that he tried to give Floyd CPR when the ambulance arrived.
George Floyd’s relatives expressed their outrage at the sentence. His brother called it “horrific” and told reporters that “the whole penal system needs to be reorganized.
THE Thomas Lane had just been hired by the Minneapolis police and was on street patrol on May 25, 2020, along with another recruit, Alexander Kueng, when a store owner accused George Floyd of giving him a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. While they were trying to put the 46-year-old, who was behaving strangely, into the patrol car, two other, experienced police officers, Derek Chauvin and Tu Tao, arrived. The four managed to knock the African American to the ground and handcuffed him. Chauvin knelt on his neck, with the two inexperienced police officers by his side, while Tu Tao kept the bystanders at bay. None of them made the slightest move, despite Floyd’s protests, not even when he lost consciousness.
Tu Tao and Alexander Kueng will be tried in the fall for “accomplice to murder” by a state court in Minnesota. Lane has pleaded guilty to that charge and is awaiting sentencing, which he will likely serve concurrently with the federal sentence.
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