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U.S. NEWS Thursday 4 June 2020
Continued from Front neys for Thao and Kueng
Chauvin was fired May did not return messages
26 and initially charged seeking comment on the
with third-degree murder charges.
and second-degree man- Attorney Ben Crump tweet-
slaughter. The three other ed that the Floyd family
officers involved were also was "deeply gratified" by
fired but were not immedi- Ellison's action and called
ately charged. it "a source of peace for
Minnesota Attorney Gener- George's family in this dif-
al Keith Ellison updated the ficult time." He said Ellison
complaint against Chauvin had told the family his of-
to add a charge of unin- fice will continue to investi-
tentional second-degree gate and upgrade charg-
murder, in addition to the es against Chauvin to first-
earlier charges. He also degree murder if warrant-
charged Thomas Lane, ed. Reached by phone,
J. Kueng and Tou Thao Crump declined to speak
with aiding and abetting beyond the statement or
second-degree murder make clear when Ellison
and second-degree man- had spoken with the family
slaughter. and whether he had been
The unintentional second- informed directly that ad-
degree murder charge al- ditional charges had been A make-shift wooden barrier blocking Chicago Avenue from traffic reveals a new mural of George
leges that Chauvin caused filed. Floyd, installed at the location of his fatal encounter with police as part of a growing memorial,
Floyd's death without intent Floyd's family and protest- Tuesday June 2, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minn.
while committing another ers have repeatedly called Associated Press
felony offense, namely for criminal charges against
third-degree assault. It car- all four officers as well as man who was pleading for out of her car in 2007, frisk- sity of Minnesota where he
ries a maximum penalty more serious charges for help and said he couldn't ing her and placing her worked part-time on cam-
of 40 years in prison, com- Chauvin, who held his knee breathe. in his squad car after he pus security. He also worked
pared with a maximum of to Floyd's neck, despite his Personnel records released stopped her for speeding as a theft-prevention offi-
25 years for third-degree protests that he couldn't by the city show Chauvin 10 miles per hour over the cer at Macy's in downtown
murder. breathe, and stayed there served as a military po- limit. His dashboard cam- Minneapolis while he was in
The other officers face the even after Floyd stopped liceman in the U.S. Army in era was not activated and college. Tou Thao, a native
same maximum penalties moving. Floyd, a black the late 1990s. Since being a report said he could have Hmong speaker, joined the
for aiding and abetting, if man, was in handcuffs hired as a police officer in interviewed the woman police force as a part-time
convicted. when he died with his face 2001, he has been awarded while standing outside her community service officer
Ellison was expected to talk pressed to the street. two medals of valor: One car. in 2008 and was promoted
about the new charges on "He died because he was for being part of a group Lane, 37, and Kueng both to police officer in 2009. He
Wednesday afternoon. starving for air," Crump of officers who opened fire joined the department in was laid off later that year
Attorney Earl Gray, who said at a news conference on a stabbing suspect after February 2019 and neither due to budget cuts and re-
represents Lane, told The earlier Wednesday. "He the man pointed a shotgun have any complaints on hired in 2012.
Associated Press that he needed a breath. So we at them in 2006, and one their files. Gov. Tim Walz and the
hadn't seen the complaint are demanding justice. We for apprehending another Lane previously worked as Minnesota Department of
or talked with his client. He expect all of the police of- man in a domestic incident a correctional officer at the Human Rights on Tuesday
said Lane was not in cus- ficers to be arrested before in 2008. In the latter inci- Hennepin County juvenile launched a civil rights inves-
tody. Before news of the we have the memorial here dent, Chauvin broke down jail and as a probation of- tigation of the Minneapolis
upgraded charges, an at- in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a bathroom door and shot ficer at a residential treat- Police Department and its
torney for Chauvin said he tomorrow." the man in the stomach. ment facility for adolescent history of racial discrimina-
was not making any state- Crump said the other of- Chauvin was reprimanded boys. Kueng was a 2018 tion, in hopes of forcing
ments at this time. Attor- ficers failed to protect a in 2008 for pulling a woman graduate of the Univer- widespread change.q
Safety board asks helicopter makers to install 'black boxes'

By DAVID KOENIG The safety board said tur- unusual. The board investi-
Associated Press bine-powered helicopters gates accidents but has no
Federal safety investigators should record data, audio authority to make regula-
bypassed aviation regula- and images during flight. tions; that falls to the FAA.
tors on Tuesday and urged The NTSB identified seven The board said it recom-
leading helicopter manu- crash investigations be- mended flight-data and
facturers to install so-called tween 2011 and 2017 in cockpit-voice recorders in
black boxes that would which it said the lack of re- 2013 and 2015, but the FAA
help determine the cause corder information slowed did not act. The request for
of crashes such as the one its ability to find potential image-recording capabil-
that killed former NBA star safety issues. ity is new.
Kobe Bryant. "The more information we The FAA has required flight-
The National Transportation have, the better we can data recorders on helicop-
Safety Board appealed di- understand not only the cir- ter ambulances since 2018.
In this Jan. 27, 2020, file photo, released by the National Trans- rectly to six manufacturers cumstances of a crash, but In a statement Tuesday, the
portation Safety Board, NTSB investigator Carol Hogan exam- after the Federal Aviation what can be done to pre- FAA said it encourages oth-
ines wreckage as part of the NTSB's investigation of a helicopter Administration failed to act vent future accidents," said er helicopter operators to
crash near Calabasas, Calif., that killed former NBA basketball on the board's recommen- Dana Schulze, director of use data-gathering systems
player Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and sev-
en others. dations to require the de- aviation safety for the NTSB. and analyze the informa-
Associated Press vices on most helicopters. The NTSB's move is highly tion to improve safety.q