Children with raincoats, boots and umbrellas danced to music by the band Guava Jelly on a showery Thursday morning as Celebrate Frederick kicked off its annual Summerfest Family Theatre series.
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On Friday morning, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging four former Minneapolis police officers with violating the civil rights of George Floyd, whose death last May set off months of nationwide protests.
Among the charges in the indictment is an allegation that two of the former officers, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, violated Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure because they did not intervene to stop their colleague, Derek Chauvin, as he knelt on Floyd’s neck.
While those federal charges are separate from state laws Kueng, Thao and the fourth officer, Thomas Lane, are slated to go on trial in August on state charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter the duty to intervene when a fellow officer uses excessive force is one that’s mandatory for California law enforcement officers.