This combination of photos provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota shows, from left, former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. A federal prosecutor told jurors Monday morning that officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane could have saved George Floyd's life in 2020, but they chose not to.
Plunkett described what happened as an institutional failure of the Minneapolis Police Department — inadequate training, Chauvin's role as a superior on the scene and confidence in Chauvin, who was Kueng's field training officer — along with a"confrontational" crowd. Prosecutors and defense attorneys met with the judge on Friday morning to resolve pretrial issues, but did not open the hearings to the public.