Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was found guilty on Tuesday of aiding and abetting in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, who died after his neck was pinned to the ground by another officer's knee during a botched arrest.
The charge against Thao, one of four officers involved in the arrest, was the final outstanding criminal case related to Floyd's killing, which ignited protests across the US over racism and police brutality in the summer of 2020.
Two other former officers, Thomas Lane and J Alexander Kueng, pleaded guilty last year to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter, the same charge Thao faced. Police were arresting Floyd on suspicion of his using a counterfeit $20 bill at a nearby store. Cahill presided over jury trials for Chauvin, Lane and Kueng.
Thao's lawyers wrote that he believed Floyd was high on narcotics and having a distressed reaction. The officer's police training had told him that knee restraints on a neck were appropriate in some instances, the lawyers wrote, and he believed the other three officers were mindful of Floyd's medical needs.
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