Tou Thao
Tou Thao was a veteran officer in the Minneapolis Police Department for close to ten years, when he a viral video seemed to show him playing a supporting role in the controversial killing of George Floyd.[1]
Thao, his partner, Derek Chauvin, and two officers with less than a week of active duty, were fired shortly after the video went viral.[1]
Reporters have found that the Minneapolis Police Department had policies, on the books, that should have called for the junior officers to have intervened, and prevented Chauvin, the senior officer, from killing Floyd.[2] The viral video recorded both Thomas K. Lane and Andrew Keung voicing concerns that Chauvin's use of force was putting Floyd at risk. The video shows Thao standing between the crowd of onlookers who had gathered and his three colleagues who were restraining Floyd.[3] The video shows Thao shove a bystander who may have been approaching the officers to intervene.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Bernard Condon; Todd Richmond; Michael R. Sisak. "What to know about 4 officers charged in George Floyd's death". ABC7 Los Angeles. Archived on 2020-06-05. Error: If you specify
|archivedate=, you must also specify|archiveurl=. https://abc7.com/6229951/. - ↑ Bernard Condon; Todd Richmond (2020-06-07). "Minneapolis requires cops to stop unreasonable force, but officers in George Floyd's arrest didn't intervene". ABC 7 News. https://abc7news.com/j-alexander-kueng-thomas-lane-tou-thao-derek-chauvin/6236151/. Retrieved 2020-06-24. "Lane held Floyd's legs and Kueng held his back while Chauvin placed his knee on Floyd's head and neck. That's when Floyd repeatedly said "I can't breathe, "Mama" and "please." At one point, Floyd said, "I'm about to die." Nevertheless, Chauvin, Lane and Kueng didn't move. And a fourth officer, Tou Thao, continued standing nearby keeping onlookers back."
- ↑
Bill Chappell (2020-06-03). "Chauvin And 3 Former Officers Face New Charges Over George Floyd's Death". National Public Radio. Archived on 2020-06-05. Error: If you specify
|archivedate=, you must also specify|archiveurl=. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/868910542/chauvin-and-3-former-officers-face-new-charges-over-george-floyds-death.
