{"id":1994141,"date":"2023-08-08T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bystander-cop-sentenced-to-nearly-5-years-in-prison-over-george-floyds-death\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:14:52","slug":"watch-bystander-cop-sentenced-to-nearly-5-years-in-prison-over-george-floyds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bystander-cop-sentenced-to-nearly-5-years-in-prison-over-george-floyds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Bystander Officer Gets Almost 5-Year Prison Term for George Floyd&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-bystander-cop-sentenced-to-nearly-5-years-in-prison-over-george-floyds-death%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1994141&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Former Minneapolis police officer sentenced for \u200caiding and abetting manslaughter in \u2063George Floyd&#8217;s killing<\/h2>\n<p>Former <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Minneapolis<\/span> \u200cpolice officer\u2063 Tou Thao was sentenced on \u200dMonday to \u200c4-3\/4 years in \u200dprison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in \u2063the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a black\u2063 man whose neck was pinned to\u200c the ground\u2063 by another <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">officer<\/span>&#8216;s knee \u2063during\u200b a botched arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence, meted\u2063 out by Hennepin County \u2063district judge Peter Cahill,\u200b was \u200bmore than\u2064 the 4-1\/4 years requested \u2062by Minnesota\u2063 attorney general Keith Ellison.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I was hoping for a\u2064 little\u200d more remorse, regret, acknowledgment of some \u2063responsibility,&#8221; Cahill said before handing\u2063 down the sentence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The sentence will \u2064run concurrently with the 3-1\/2 years Thao \u2064previously received on\u2063 a federal conviction\u200c of violating Floyd&#8217;s civil\u200d rights.<\/p>\n<p>Cahill in May found Thao guilty of one count of aiding and abetting manslaughter in the second degree \u200dfor his role in Floyd&#8217;s death. Thao, a\u2062 nine-year \u200cveteran of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officials-launch-murder-probe-into-death-of-officer-following-d-c-protests\/\" title=\"Officials launch murder probe into death of officer following D.C. protests\">police force<\/a>, was the\u200c fourth and final <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">officer<\/span> sentenced in \u2063the killing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I\u200d didn&#8217;t intend \u200don doing any malice or &#8230; try to \u2063hurt\u200d anyone.\u200c That was never\u200d my intent. I did the best that I thought I\u200d could,&#8221; Thao \u2063said in \u2062court before he\u200b was\u2063 sentenced.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Derek Chauvin, a white <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">officer<\/span> \u200d captured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bystander-cop-sentenced-to-nearly-5-years-in-prison-over-george-floyds-death\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Bystander Officer Gets Almost 5-Year Prison Term for George Floyd's Death\">cellphone \u200cvideo kneeling<\/a> on Floyd&#8217;s neck for \u2064more than nine minutes on\u2063 May \u200d25, 2020, was found guilty of murder in 2021. Thao held back a \u2063small crowd of bystanders while Chauvin and two other <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">officers<\/span> were subduing Floyd, who \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jonathan-turley-msnbc-moronic-for-allegedly-following-rittenhouse-jury-in-city-on-the-edge\/\" title=\"Jonathan Turley: MSNBC 'Moronic' for Allegedly Following Rittenhouse Jury in 'City on the Edge'\">police suspected<\/a>\u2063 of using \u200ca counterfeit $20\u200c bill at a nearby store.<\/p>\n<p>The killing ignited\u200d a wave of protests over\u200c racism and\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-team-kneels-for-anthem-wears-black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"US Women's Soccer Team Kneels for Anthem, Wears 'Black Lives Matter'\">police brutality<\/a> across \u200cthe United\u200b States and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Thao did\u200b not\u200b immediately\u200c respond to\u200b requests for comment on Monday.<\/p>\n<h3>Other\u2064 officers involved \u2064in\u2062 the incident<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Lane \u2063and J. Alexander Kueng restrained Floyd&#8217;s\u200d knees and buttocks while Chauvin knelt on his neck.<\/li>\n<li>Lane and Kueng \u200dpleaded guilty in state court to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Lane was sentenced to 3-1\/2 years\u200c in prison. \u2064Kueng was sentenced to three years.<\/li>\n<li>At a federal trial, Kueng \u200dand Lane were also found\u200d guilty of violating Floyd&#8217;s civil rights. \u2064Lane was sentenced to 2-1\/2 years\u200d and Kueng to three \u200dyears in federal \u2063prison, to run concurrently with the state sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chauvin was sentenced to 22-1\/2 years in state prison for the unintentional second-degree murder of \u2063Floyd. Last\u2063 year, he received a concurrent sentence of \u200d21 years in prison on federal charges \u2064of violating\u2062 Floyd&#8217;s\u200b civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Brendan \u200dO&#8217;Brien \u2063in Chicago;\u2062 Editing by Will Dunham \u2062and \u200cGrant McCool)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao received a 4-3\/4 year prison sentence for aiding and abetting manslaughter in George Floyd&#8217;s killing. The sentence, given by Judge Peter Cahill, was longer than expected. Floyd, a black man, died when another officer knelt on his neck during an unsuccessful arrest in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1994142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}