China News Service, April 12. According to the Associated Press, U.S. prosecutors said on the 11th local time that they provided plea deals to three other former Minnesota police officers facing charges in the Floyd case, but they were not at the hearing. The agreement was rejected at the meeting.
Data map: Tou Thao (left), Thomas Lane (middle) and J. Alexander Kueng, three former police officers involved in the Floyd case in the United States.
The hearing was reportedly held by Judge Peter Cahill of Hennepin County, Minnesota, to decide whether he has the authority to allow live video coverage of the trial, which will take place in June.
The three former police officers involved, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, were charged with second-degree aiding and abetting murder and second-degree aiding and abetting manslaughter .
Prosecutor Matthew Frank disclosed details of the plea deal in open court, the report said.
In addition, Lane's attorney, Earl Gray, said the three former officers still don't know what the federal sentence will be, making it difficult for the defense to negotiate.
On June 25, 2021, local time, New Yorkers held a rally in front of the newly completed George Floyd statue in Brooklyn.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
On June 25, 2021, Cahill announced that Derek Chauvin, the principal in the Floyd case, was sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison.
On the same day, the Henneping County District Court conducted a live webcast of the sentencing process of the case.
Cahill said that although he also believes that the case has brought great grief to the general public, including the Floyd family, the main considerations for his decision are the facts of the case and the legal terms, which are by no means subjective. emotion.