After Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict, 3 other Minneapolis police officers await trial
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all charges, but that is not the end of prosecutions over George Floyd's death. Cases are ongoing against three other officers involved in the fatal arrest.
The three officers — Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane — each face two charges: aiding and abetting second degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 40 years, and aiding and abetting second degree manslaughter, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years. After a jury found Chauvin guilty Tuesday of all three counts he was facing in the death of George Floyd — second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter —Ben Crump, the attorney for Floyd's family, called the case "a turning point in American history for accountability in law enforcement." Next, prosecutors will present their case against the three other officers, whose joint trial is scheduled to begin August 23.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.