cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1175741
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Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230807194307/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66429735
Good, but it kinda ticks me off the he gets to serve this sentence at the same time he’s seeing a 3-year for the civil rights conviction… like rather than 8 years, it maxes out at 5, and that’s some bullshit.
All four former police officers involved in the incident were convicted on federal civil rights charges, in addition to state murder charges for Mr Chauvin. Ex-officers Thomas Lane and J Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Thao, who was sentenced to three and a half years over his civil rights conviction, will serve the 57 months at the same time.
He is doing 57 months because he is serving for multiple crimes simultaneously.
Police who violate the law should not be allowed anything but the maximum sentence non-concurrent with other crimes.
But cops protect those who have power and those who have power. Don’t want to piss off the cops so here we are.
I don’t even understand why concurrent sentences exist. if you do multiple crimes you should serve time for them all, regardless of who you are.
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No, apparently it’s more humane to abolish the death penalty and let them rot,
I personally disagree, but most people seem to agree. But I also have never been in a situation where I’d seriously have to choose, so obviously my opinion ins somewhat academic.
It makes some sense when multiple crimes were committed but it was one event. Robbing a liquor store becomes several different crimes with their own max sentences. Sure there were multiple laws broken but they only did one thing. The issue is how grey that line becomes and how much authority a judge has over a crime’s punishment and when you factor in things like if the robber shot the clerk.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 57 months (almost five years) in prison for his role in the death of George Floyd.
The officer, Tou Thao, was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter by a Minnesota judge in May.
Ex-officers Thomas Lane and J Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
Thao, who was sentenced to three and a half years over his civil rights conviction, will serve the 57 months at the same time.
The former officer had waived his right to a jury trial in the manslaughter case, opting instead for Judge Peter Cahill to determine the verdict.
Judge Cahill added that Thao’s actions “were even more unreasonable in light of the fact that he was under a duty to intervene to stop other officers’ excessive use of force and was trained to render medical aid”.
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He should’ve gotten life
He probably didn’t see THAT coming
he got off easy. hopefully justice will served when he is in the slammer
He has the biggest gang in the world to protect him, and they run the joint.
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Imagine someone dying from a drug overdose and you get the blame for it when he was a danger to himself and everyone around him thrashing around
Should’ve just pulled himself up by his bootstraps I suppose, right?
Entirely political. Police do the same thing all over but because it was a black man on cellphone video the entire black community rioted and burned everything down for a month. Should they have been convicted? Probably. Was it deliberate? Most likely not. Dude was hopped up on fentanyl.
Dude, you don’t even get “hopped up” on Fentanyl…
Oh sorry my bad. What I meant to say is he was high on drugs and had an extensive criminal history. He started the encounter by fighting the police. Don’t fight the police.
Neither point is any reason to even remotely justify what happened to him. Not even one bit.
Why not? If somebody fights against you as a cop you’ll be less likely to let up and allow them room to escape. Most people would be fine in that situation. It was kind of a freak accident.
No it wasn’t. It was manslaughter at least.
But that’s enough fish for you,troll.
Why do you think I’m a troll. I just disagree with you. And does manslaughter get you 20 years?
Does a criminal history mean you deserve to die?
Sadly the left adore the race baiting politics of this stunt
They need this to feel virtuous. They ignore all the evidence of saint fentanyl and his drug journey
