Ex-police officer in George Floyd death asks for charges to be dropped
Thao's lawyers will argue there was no way he could have known a crime was about to take place: Getty Images/ A police officer charged in connection with the death of has applied to have his charges dropped, court documents show. Lawyers for Tou Thao, 34, have put forward a motion stating that the former police officer could not have known that Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes, was about to commit a crime. Floyd’s death proved to be a tinderbox moment for race relations in the US. Protesters have taken to the ...
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