'No one did a thing to help': Closing arguments in fed trial of George Floyd cops
ABC News
A jury is expected to begin deliberating Tuesday afternoon the fates of three former Minneapolis police officers accused of violating George Floyd's civil rights.
A federal jury is poised to begin deliberating as early as Tuesday afternoon the fates of three former Minneapolis police officers accused of violating George Floyd's civil rights by not providing medical aid during his fatal arrest and failing to stop their senior officer's excessive use of force.
The U.S. District Court jury in St. Paul, Minnesota, will get the case following closing arguments from attorneys for the three defendants, Thomas Lane, 38, J. Alexander Kueng, 28, and Tou Thao, 35.
In her closing argument Monday morning, U.S. Assistant Attorney Manda Sertich asked the jury to convict all three defendants, alleging they ignored their duty to intervene as they watched Derek Chauvin "commit a violent crime" by kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed Floyd for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, rendering him unconscious and without a detectable pulse.
"No one did a thing to help," Sertich said told the jury.
