Three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for violating George Floyd s civil rights should have intervened to stop fellow Officer Derek Chauvin when he had his knee on the Black man's neck, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s homicide unit testified.
“If you see another officer using too much force or doing something illegal, you need to intervene and stop it,” Lt. Richard Zimmerman, the most senior officer in the department, said Thursday at the federal trial for former Officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao.
