Former Officer in George Floyd Case Reaches Plea Deal With Lower Sentence

A state charge with a maximum prison sentence of 40 years was dismissed

Former Minneapolis Police officer Thomas Lane arrives at the U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., on Jan. 11, 2022, for the pre-trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in George Floyd's death. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

One of the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the 2020 death of George Floyd pleaded guilty on May 18 to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

As part of a plea agreement, Thomas Lane, 39, had one count of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder dismissed. He had faced the state’s mandatory minimum sentence of 12 years in prison if convicted of that state charge.