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Thomas Lane is one of four police officers, the other three being Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, and J. Alexander Kueng, that aided in the murder of George Floyd in May 2020.
He was convicted of federal civil rights violations on February 24 2022 along with Thao and Kueng. On May 18 2022, Thomas Lane pleaded guilty to state manslaughter, and received a 2.5 years on July 21.