Pressure Grows to see other officers charged

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Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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 The Hennepin County attorney, Mike Freeman, has yet to detail the charges the three police officers could face. Photograph: Jerry Holt/AP
  • J Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao and Thomas Lane were at scene
  • County attorney said last Friday he expected charges

The Minneapolis police officer who spent almost nine minutes kneeling on the neck of George Floyd was charged with murder on Friday. But the fate of his colleagues, who stood by as Floyd’s strained cries grew silent, is yet to be determined.

Three colleagues of Derek Chauvin, who is accused of third-degree murder and manslaughter, were fired after Floyd’s death but have not been arrested and have reportedly gone to ground as protests have spread from Minneapolis across the US.

On Friday the Hennepin county attorney, Mike Freeman, who announced the charges against Chauvin, said he expected charges would be brought against the now ex-police officers J Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao and Thomas Lane.

Freeman is yet to detail the charges the three men could face, but all three were mentioned in the documents charging Chauvin.



Kueng, according to the official complaint, held Floyd’s back while Lane held down his legs as Chauvin placed his knee on Floyd’s neck.

As Floyd repeatedly told the officers “I can’t breathe”, Kueng, Lane and Thao, according to prosecutors, “stayed in their positions”.

Chauvin, 44, had worked for the Minneapolis police department since 2001. It was a career littered with violent incidents.

In 2011 he and four other officers were placed on leave after they shot and wounded an indigenous man. The same year, Chauvin was part of a team that responded to a domestic violence call where the suspect was shot, although not by Chauvin.  Read more…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/01/george-floyd-killing-three-officers-charges

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  1. They should be charged. They were clearly assessories to the murder. He held his position for more than 3 minutes after he felt the life leave his victim and they assisted that….made no effort whatsoever to save the man.

    I would not want to be one of their immediate or (same name) family members right now.

    Who put the bricks at 6 protest sites (where no construction was going on)? Protesters would not have stacked the new bricks neatly on pallets and whoever put them there was not invisible. If police were doing their jobs, not protecting antagonists (deep state), we would already know this information.

    A video was removed from the web of the white man wearing a gas mask that broke the Minneapolis Autozone windows and sprayed an invitation to loot on the back door. WHO REMOVED THE VIDEO AND WHY?

    Trump should be held accountable for these acts of hiding the real perpetrators, while BLM is blamed.

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