{"id":8679,"date":"2023-08-07T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/ex-minneapolis-officer-sent-to-prison-for-57-months-for-role-in-george-floyds-death\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:16:09","slug":"ex-minneapolis-officer-sent-to-prison-for-57-months-for-role-in-george-floyds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/ex-minneapolis-officer-sent-to-prison-for-57-months-for-role-in-george-floyds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Minneapolis officer sent to prison for 57 months for role in George Floyd&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/loJJ0kL_Bv4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, was sentenced Monday to four years and nine months in prison. Thao says he was &#8216;distressed&#8217; by Floyd&#8217;s death but denied any role in it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFor breaking news on Twitter:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tou Thao, the last former Minneapolis police officer convicted in state court for his role in the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, was sentenced Monday to four years and nine months in prison. Thao says he was &#8216;distressed&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8117,86,87,8116,8119,8118,2533,8120,113,4094,2118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}