Ex-officers “willfully failed to aid Floyd” and deprived him of rights, according to indictment

Ex-officers “willfully failed to aid Floyd” and deprived him of rights, according to indictment


A federal grand jury has indicted former Minneapolis police officers Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane for actions in the death of George Floyd.  

Chauvin is charged of depriving “George Floyd of the right…to be free from an unreasonable seizure, which includes the right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer.” 

Thao and Kueng were indicted as defendants who “willfully failed to intervene to stop Defendant Chauvin’s use of unreasonable force.”

All four are accused of “deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs,”…

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