Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights “chose to do nothing” as Officer Derek Chauvin squeezed the life out of Mr Floyd, a prosecutor said in her closing argument on Tuesday.
Defence lawyers countered that the officers were too inexperienced, weren’t trained properly and did not wilfully violate Mr Floyd’s rights.
J Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Chauvin pressed his knee into Mr Floyd’s neck for nine-and-a-half minutes as the 46-year-old Black man pleaded for air before going silent.
