The federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with failing to intervene to stop the murder of George Floyd or to provide him with lifesaving medical care began Monday.
The three men — Tou Thao, Thomas Lane, and J. Alexander Kueng — can be seen in videos actively participating in the incident in which their former colleague Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes as he begged for his life.
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