Minneapolis (BNC) – Bail has been set for the officer’s involved in the death of George Floyd at $750,000 apiece charged with aiding and abetting in the killing of George Floyd, as a memorial service took place just blocks away.
Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng made their first appearances in Hennepin County District Court as friends, relatives and celebrities gathered to memorialize Floyd at a nearby Bible college.
The Minneapolis Police Department fired the trio last week, along with Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s May 25 death.
Attorney Earl Gray, representing Lane, told the court that Chauvin was the senior officer on the scene and that when Floyd died it was only Lane’s fourth day on the job and Kueng’s fourth day as an officer.
The latest criminal complaint against him says his actions were a “substantial causal factor in Mr. Floyd losing consciousness, constituting substantial bodily harm, and Mr. Floyd’s death as well.”
