Prosecutor: 3 cops in Floyd killing ‘chose to do nothing’

Attorney Earl Gray questions Thomas Lane before U.S. District Judge Magnuson during his trial in the killing of George Floyd in federal court in St. Paul, Minn., on Feb. 21, 2022. | Cedric Hohnstadt via AP

By Associated Press

02/22/2022 07:34 PM EST

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights “chose to do nothing” as a fellow officer squeezed the life out of Floyd, a prosecutor said in her closing argument Tuesday. Defense attorneys countered that the officers were too inexperienced, weren’t trained properly and did not willfully violate Floyd’s

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