Ex-Minneapolis officer sentenced to nearly 5 years for role in George Floyd's death
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Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd, was sentenced Monday to four years and nine months.
Thao had testified that he merely served as a "human traffic cone" when he held back concerned bystanders who had gathered as former officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, knelt on Floyd's neck for nine-and-a-half minutes while the Black man pleaded for his life on May 25, 2020.
A bystander video captured Floyd's fading cries of "I can't breathe."
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill found Thao guilty in May of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. The sentence he handed down Monday will run concurrently with Thao's three-and-a-half-year sentence on his separate conviction on a federal civil rights charge.
His state sentence was more than the four years recommended under state guidelines.
Minnesota inmates generally serve two-thirds of their sentences in prison and one-third on parole. There is no parole in the federal system but inmates can shave some time off their sentences with good behaviour.
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