Tou Thao: Ex-officer in George Floyd case gets 57 months for role in killing

Not enough. Let’s remember Floyd got a death sentence with no trial or jury but simply because these cops thought of themselves as judge, jury and executioner.

Good, but it kinda ticks me off the he gets to serve this sentence at the same time he’s seeing a 3-year for the civil rights conviction.. like rather than 8 years, it maxes out at 5, and that’s some bullshit.

All four former police officers involved in the incident were convicted on federal civil rights charges, in addition to state murder charges for Mr Chauvin. Ex-officers Thomas Lane and J Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Thao, who was sentenced to three and a half years over his civil rights conviction, will serve the 57 months at the same time.

He is doing 57 months because he is serving for multiple crimes simultaneously.

Police who violate the law should not be allowed anything but the maximum sentence non-concurrent with other crimes.

But cops protect those who have power and those who have power. Don't want to piss off the cops so here we are.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 57 months (almost five years) in prison for his role in the death of George Floyd.

The officer, Tou Thao, was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter by a Minnesota judge in May.

Ex-officers Thomas Lane and J Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

Thao, who was sentenced to three and a half years over his civil rights conviction, will serve the 57 months at the same time.

The former officer had waived his right to a jury trial in the manslaughter case, opting instead for Judge Peter Cahill to determine the verdict.

Judge Cahill added that Thao's actions "were even more unreasonable in light of the fact that he was under a duty to intervene to stop other officers' excessive use of force and was trained to render medical aid".

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He should've gotten life

He probably didn't see THAT coming

he got off easy. hopefully justice will served when he is in the slammer

First off, to avoid confusion, every cop on scene should have gotten maximum sentences. For the nothing they did, it was every bit as complicit in the crime as being another knee on that mans neck.

Just a thought. Maybe it is because I am too damn nice. But this dumb mother fucker is going into prison not only as an ex cop, but one that is partially responsible for George Floyd's death. Can't say I've made it far enough in life to make it to prison, maybe I'm lucky. But I am not stupid and Thao is about to have 57 months feel like 57 years of hell. I don't think there's a goof, diddler or pedo that's gonna be lower on the ladder than this pile of shit.

Imagine someone dying from a drug overdose and you get the blame for it when he was a danger to himself and everyone around him thrashing around

Entirely political. Police do the same thing all over but because it was a black man on cellphone video the entire black community rioted and burned everything down for a month. Should they have been convicted? Probably. Was it deliberate? Most likely not. Dude was hopped up on fentanyl.