Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced on Monday to 4-3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose neck was pinned to the ground by another officer’s knee during a botched arrest.
The sentence, meted out by Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill, was more than the 4-1/4 years requested by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
I wonder why he got the longest sentence out of the other two. I feel like actually restraining him is worse than holding a crowd back.
He didn’t take a plea deal. The others did.
I also read that he showed no remorse and that pissed the judge off.