Three police officers tried for having “watched die” the African-American George Floyd, without moving
SAINT PAUL | They “watched a man die and decided to do nothing”: three police officers who remained passive during the murder of African-American George Floyd were strangled by the prosecution on Monday at the opening of their trial in federal justice .
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Supporting roles in a drama that shook the whole world, Tou Thao, Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane appear free in federal court in Saint Paul, in the north of the United States, for "violation of civil rights" of the black forties.
On May 25, 2020, they "watched Mr. Floyd's slow, painful agony," prosecutor Samantha Trepel argued. The latter, who was suffocating under the knee of their colleague Derek Cha...