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Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced on Monday to 4-3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose neck was pinned to the ground by another officer's knee during a botched arrest.

The sentence, meted out by Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill, was more than the 4-1/4 years requested by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. It is what he deserves.

[–] ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Far less than what he deserves.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Order of magnitude less

[–] BettyWhiteInHD@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be a fun couple of years for a cop in prison.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Unless they have a special housing unit he'll end up in solitary confinement. (Did a few years in a state prison for growing mushrooms).

If he went to general population he'd be the target of so much harassment. So, they will separate him, even if it means he serves his whole sentence in the hole.

Best case they have a seg unit. Which means he'll be grouped with sex offenders.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TFW when you see this in your inbox and you aren’t sure if it’s a reply to a post or something you said

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Thao. Fuck that dude.

[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thao held back a small crowd of bystanders while Chauvin and two other officers were subduing Floyd, who police suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill at a nearby store.

The other two officers at the scene, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, restrained Floyd's knees and buttocks while Chauvin knelt on his neck. Lane and Kueng last year pleaded guilty in state court to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Lane was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison. Kueng was sentenced to three years

[–] Mikey_donuts@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder why he got the longest sentence out of the other two. I feel like actually restraining him is worse than holding a crowd back.

[–] BirdsWithBeefyArms@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't take a plea deal. The others did.

[–] Mikey_donuts@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I also read that he showed no remorse and that pissed the judge off.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Those three years will be concurrent with his federal sentence, which I don't really think is justice.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The judge noted that he expected at least a little bit of remorse and definitely not to be preached at.