George Floyd: Former Minneapolis police officer charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter!

On Wednesday, a former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a charge of aiding and abetting second-degree premeditated murder in the murder of George Floyd was sentenced to three years in prison. Thomas Lane is already serving a two-and-a-half year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. When it came to the state case, prosecutors and Lane’s attorneys agreed to a recommended three-year sentence, and prosecutors agreed to allow him to serve that sentence at the same time as his federal sentence, and in a federal prison. And the…

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George Floyd: Houstonian’s 2004 arrest by former HPD officer Gerald Goines denied pardon, lawyer Allison Mathis says!

Houston, Texas (KTRK) – George Floyd’s recorded criminal past, including the arrest of a police officer in Houston, continues to leave the department in disgrace, as is for the foreseeable future. ABC13 learned Thursday that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to remove Houston’s one-time 2004 arrest linked to Gerald Goins, the central figure in the failed 2019 Harding Street raid, from its record. Full Coverage: HPD Harding Raid Allison Mattis, the Harris County public defender who applied for Parson Floyd in April 2021, told Eyewitness News that…

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