Prosecutors cited the pandemic in requesting trial be delayed for three months
The trial had been scheduled for March 8 for the four now-fired police officers
They are charged in the death of Floyd on May 25 on a Minneapolis street corner
Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane are scheduled to be tried together
Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, and the others are charged with aiding and abetting murder and manslaughteR
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