The three ex-policemen linked to the death of George Floyd are found guilty

• USA Derek Chauvin, sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd

• Racism A year after the death of George Floyd: the US is still caught up in the racial debate

A jury on Thursday found guilty the three former police officers who

while one of their colleagues suffocated the African-American

an event that sparked the largest protests against racism in the United States in more than half a century.

Former police officers Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng

were found guilty of violating Floyd's civil rights by not helping him when his then-police partner, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee for nine minutes on Floyd's neck, lying down. on the floor.

While this was happening, Lane grabbed Floyd's feet and Kueng knelt on his back, while Thao tried to push away those who came to see what was happening.

The federal crime of violating a person's civil rights carries a range of penalties

depending on the circumstances of the crime and the injuries that result from it, according to the Justice Department.

The three former agents, who will face another trial at the state level in parallel,

to the crimes they were charged with.

In addition to violating Floyd's civil rights, two of the officers, Lane and Kueng, were found guilty on another count of failing to stop Chauvin.

The

for this trial was made up of four men and eight women.

All of them appeared to be white, according to the local press, although the Minnesota court where the process took place did not publish racial data.

Of the convicted officers, Lane is white, Kueng is African-American, and Thao identifies with Hmong, originally from southern China.

Floyd lost his life on May 25, 2020 when the four officers tried to arrest him for having used a counterfeit bill to pay at a store.

On June 25, Chauvin was sentenced by a state court to

of which he will serve 15, for the murder of Floyd.

Chauvin was also accused in a federal trial of violating Floyd's civil rights, a crime for which he pleaded guilty last December after closing an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office to simultaneously serve this sentence with the one he already faces for murder.

Floyd's death sparked the largest anti-racism protests in the US since the assassination of

in the late 1960s.

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