Attorney For Ex-Officer Thomas Lane Asks Court To Allow Body Cam Video From A Previous Arrest Involving George Floyd

From CBS Minnesota:

By John Lauritsen

October 14, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Earl Gray, the attorney for former officer Thomas Lane, is asking the court to allow body camera video from a previous arrest involving George Floyd. It occurred in May of last year. Floyd was the passenger in an unlicensed vehicle that was stopped by Minneapolis Police.

According to transcripts, an officer asks Floyd to unbuckle his seat belt three times before Floyd says, “don’t shoot me man.”

Floyd is then told several times to put his hands on the dash, but doesn’t listen, to which an officer says, “put your hands on the dash. It’s the last time I’m going to tell you that. It’s simple. He keeps moving his hands around.”

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