The three men were accused of not having brought the necessary help to the black forties, on whose neck their colleague Derek Chauvin had remained kneeling for nearly ten minutes. He has already been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. Thomas Lane is the first of the other three to be fixed on his fate.
“It’s awful”
A sentence that does not satisfy those close to George Floyd. “It’s terrible”, commented his brother Philonise in front of the cameras: “The whole penal system must be overhauled. »
Freshly recruited by Minneapolis law enforcement, Thomas Lane was patrolling on May 25, 2020 with another rookie, Alexander Kueng, when a shopkeeper accused George Floyd of selling a counterfeit $20 bill in his store.
The scene, filmed and posted online, sparked huge protests against racism and police brutality across the United States and beyond, and continues to fuel reflection on America’s racist past.
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