3 officers at Floyd killing not trained adequately: defence

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An attorney for one of the three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for allegedly violating George Floyd's civil rights suggested Friday that the department's training is inadequate when it comes to intervening when a colleague is using excessive force and that new recruits are told to obey their senior officers.

Federal prosecutors say former Officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao didn't follow their training when they failed to act to save Floyd's life on May 25, 2020, as fellow Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the Black man's neck for 9 1/2 minutes while Floyd was handcuffed, facedown and gasping for air. Kueng kneeled on Floyd's back, Lane held his legs and Thao kept bystanders back.

Plunkett said department policy states that an officer is required to stop or attempt to stop another employee from using inappropriate force, pointing out that Blackwell left "attempt to stop" out of her prior testimony. He also said that when officers are trained in use-of-force scenarios, intervention is not taught."Not one exactly for intervention," Blackwell said.

Blackwell, who was testifying for a second day, spent hours talking about policy and training. She said Thao took repeated refresher courses on use-of-force policies, including as recently as 2018 and 2019, and that Lane and Kueng had repeated lessons on the same subjects while attending the academy in 2019.

Blackwell said she saw nothing that would have prevented Thao and Kueng from stopping Chauvin. And although police body camera video shows that Lane was rebuffed when he twice asked if they should roll Floyd onto his side -- something Blackwell testified is critical -- he still had a duty to intervene.

 

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“Not trained adequately” is the union/defence lawyer whine when they know their client is screwed and generally should have known better.

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