An attorney for one of the former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd is trying to shift the responsibility for his death on those who were witnesses rather than blame his client.

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Gray’s client, Thomas Lane, is one of the former officers who held down Floyd’s legs while ex-officer Dereck Chauvin, who was Lane’s training officer, pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes until he died.

His attorney suggests that Lane suggested to Chauvin to roll Floyd on his side multiple times but Chauvin simply ignored him.

Lane had been a Minneapolis Police Officer for just four days.

Cuomo rejected the attorney’s argument pointing out that Lane could see that Chauvin was suffocating Floyd, had a duty to intervene and yet did not.