TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 7, 2023

Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced Tuesday to four and 3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, Reuters reports. The sentence will run concurrently with the three and 1/2 years Thao previously received on a federal conviction of violating Floyd's civil rights. Thao, a nine-year veteran of the police force, was the fourth and final officer sentenced in the killing of Floyd. He held back a small crowd of bystanders while then-officer Derek Chauvin and two others subdued Floyd, who police suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill at a nearby store.