By Brendan O Brien and Julia Harte (Reuters) - A judge in Minneapolis on Thursday postponed the trial of three former policemen accused of taking part in the murder of George Floyd to March 2022, saying the federal case against the men should proceed first, local media reported. Tou Thao, 25, J. Alexander Kueng, 27, and Thomas Lane, 28 - all fired and arrested days after the 46-year-old Black man was killed on May 25 - have been charged with aiding and abetting the second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of Floyd. White former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on April 20 of murdering Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes, in a case that marked a milestone in America s fraught racial history and a rebuke of law enforcement’s treatment of Black Americans. The death, captured on cellphone video, led to protests around the nation and overseas. Lane is white, Kueng is Black and Thao is of Hmong descent. A federal grand jury in Minneapolis la
Publishing date: May 13, 2021 • May 13, 2021 • 3 minute read • An image of George Floyd s arrest by Officer Derek Chauvin plays on a screen, on the eighth day of the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis April 7, 2021 in this courtroom sketch. Photo by JANE ROSENBERG /via REUTERS
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A judge in Minneapolis on Thursday postponed the trial of three former policemen accused of taking part in the murder of George Floyd to March 2022, saying the federal case against the men should proceed first, local media reported.
Tou Thao, 25, J. Alexander Kueng, 27, and Thomas Lane, 28 – all fired and arrested days after the 46-year-old Black man was killed on May 25 – have been charged with aiding and abetting the second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of Floyd.