Three officers ‘stood by as Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd’

This image from video shows Minneapolis police officers Thomas Lane, left, and J Alexander Kueng, right, escorting George Floyd, centre, to a police vehicle outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis on May 25 2020 (Court TV via AP, Pool)

Three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights did nothing to intervene as fellow officer Derek Chauvin pinned the black man’s neck to the street, a prosecutor has told jurors.

“For second after second, minute after minute, these three CPR-trained defendants stood and knelt next to … Chauvin as he … killed George Floyd right in front of them,” prosecutor Samantha Trepel said as opening statements got under way at the officers’ federal trial in St Paul, Minnesota.