Police in George Floyd case to face trial together in Minneapolis

A mural of George Floyd in Dublin (Niall Carson/PA)

A judge in the US declined defence requests to move the trial of four Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s death, and also ruled that all four would be tried in a single proceeding.

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ruled after defence lawyers had argued that pre-trial publicity had made it impossible for the four men to get a fair trial.