From Yahoo.com….
Four former Minneapolis police officers, including convicted murderer Derek Chauvin, were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that they violated George Floyd’s constitutional rights when they restrained him on the pavement during a fatal encounter last summer, according to court documents.
The three-count indictment unsealed Friday accuses Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao of depriving Floyd of his rights under the law during the arrest that left Floyd dead on May 25, 2020, and touched off a wave of protests worldwide.
The indictment states that Chauvin, while aided and abetted by the other three officers, willfully deprived George Floyd of his constitutional right to be “free from an unreasonable seizure, which includes the right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer.”
Chauvin, the indictment said, held his left knee on Floyd’s neck, and his right knee on Floyd’s back and arm, as Floyd laid on the ground “handcuffed and unresisting,” and did not relent even after Floyd became unresponsive.
