iStock/nirat(NEW YORK) Opening statements got underway Monday in the federal trial of three former Minnesota police officers charged in the death of George
iStock/nirat(NEW YORK) Opening statements got underway Monday in the federal trial of three former Minnesota police officers charged in the death of George Floyd with a prosecutor telling the jury the defendants "made the conscious choice over and over again" not to protect the 46-year-old Black man. Fired Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, 28, Thomas Lane, 38, and Tou Thao, 35, are fighting charges stemming from their alleged roles in the deadly confrontation with Floyd who their one-time senior officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted of murdering. The trial, expected to last two to four weeks, is being held at the Warren E. Burger Federal Building in St. Paul. The trial got underway just after 10 a.m. with U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson swearing in the jury before calling on a federal prosecutor to give the first opening statement. "In your custody, in your care," Assistant U.S. Attorney Samantha Trepel told the jury, reading from the Minneap
(NEW YORK) — Opening statements got underway Monday in the federal trial of three former Minnesota police officers charged in the death of George Floyd with a prosecutor telling the jury the defendants “made the conscious choice over and over again” not to protect the […]