appearance this past week. They noted both were on just their fourth day as full-fledged cops at the time of Floyd’s May 25 arrest, while Chauvin was an authority figure as a designated training officer for new cops.“They’re required to call him ‘Sir,’” Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, told the judge. “He has 20 years’ experience.
What is my client supposed to do but to follow what the training officer said? Is that aiding and abetting a crime?”Gray noted that Lane questioned Chauvin’s actions during the arrest, and Kueng's lawyer Thomas Plunkett said his client told fellow cops, “You shouldn’t be doing this.”But according to the criminal complaints that detailed Floyd’s arrest on suspicion of passing a counterfeit bill, the officers didn’t.