Defense: 3 officers at Floyd killing not trained adequately

By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER
Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An attorney for one of the three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for allegedly violating George Floyd’s civil rights says the police department didn’t adequately train new officers on certain policies and taught them to obey their superiors. Federal prosecutors say officers J. Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao and Thomas Lane had a duty to intervene when Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes, but they did nothing and failed to start CPR after Floyd stopped breathing. The former head of the police department’s training division says the officers didn’t follow the department’s use-of-force policy when Floyd was killed. But Kueng’s attorney says training is lacking and new officers are taught to obey senior officers.