United States.- This Thursday the three ex-policemen of Minneapolis, United States linked to the death of george floyd They were convicted of violating the civil rights of the African-American man after a federal jury rejected the arguments for which they did not act while one of their companions kneed the man.
the ex-cops, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane were sentenced for depriving the right to george floyd to his right to medical care when the African-American citizen was pinned with teammate Derek Chauvin’s knee for more than nine minutes in 2020.
According to US media, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng were also convicted of not intervening to stop their partner in murder, which caused a wave and a movement of protests in Minneapolis and different parts of the world.
For this trial, the popular jury was made up of four men and eight women, all of them of white descent, according to the press, however, the Minneapolis court did not give more details in this regard.
In this sense, Charles Kovats, interim federal of Minnesota, pointed to the sentence as a reminder that all public agents have an oath to intervene, because if they do not do so, they are committing a crime.
During the trial, prosecutors also showed that the officers violated their training in that even after submission, they failed to provide first aid to George Floyd.
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It was mentioned that the former officers remain free on bail pending sentencing, which has not yet been scheduled, however, according to US law, if a federal civil rights violation resulting in death is punishable by imprisonment. perpetual or even with death however these cases do not occur frequently.
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