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Prosecutors depict ex-officer as complicit in Floyd's death

by Associated Press
| August 25, 2020 10:27 AM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors have urged a Minnesota judge not to dismiss the charges against one of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd, saying Tou Thao pushed back a crowd of concerned bystanders and prevented them from intervening as the other officers pinned Floyd to the ground.

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