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Ex-cop Thomas Lane faces sentencing in George Floyd killing

FILE - This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. A judge has sentenced Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday, July 21, 2022, on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file) FILE - This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. A judge has sentenced Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday, July 21, 2022, on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file) FILE - This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. A judge has sentenced Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday, July 21, 2022, on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file) FILE - This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. A judge has sentenced Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday, July 21, 2022, on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file) FILE - This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. A judge has sentenced Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday, July 21, 2022, on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file) FILE - This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. A judge has sentenced Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday, July 21, 2022, on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file) FILE - This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. A judge has sentenced Lane to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday, July 21, 2022, on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file) FILE In this June 25, 2021, file image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane is hoping for a sentence Thursday, July 21, 2022, that could let him go free after as little as two years in prison for his role in the killing of George Floyd. Lane is one of three former Minneapolis officers, along with Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao and Chauvin, who were convicted by a federal jury in February of violating Floyd's civil rights by depriving him of medical care. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File) This combo of June 3, 2020 file photos provided by the Hennepin County, Minn., Sheriff's Office, shows, from left, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. Former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane is hoping for a sentence Thursday, July 21, 2022, that could let him go free after as little as two years in prison for his role in the killing of George Floyd. Lane is one of three former Minneapolis officers, along with Kueng, Thao and Derek Chauvin, who were convicted by a federal jury in February of violating Floyd's civil rights by depriving him of medical care.(Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File) FILE - This June 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows Thomas Lane is shown. Former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane is hoping for a sentence Thursday, July 21, 2022, that could let him go free after as little as two years in prison for his role in the killing of George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, file)
Ex-cop Thomas Lane faces sentencing in George Floyd killing