Cop’s lawyer: George Floyd ‘killed himself’

The knee-on-the-neck arrest of George Floyd had nothing to do with his death — because he actually “killed himself,” a lawyer for one of the four charged cops has claimed.

Earl Gray, the attorney for Thomas Lane (right), has already filed court papers trying to dismiss the fired officer’s charges, insisting the real cause of Floyd’s death was a fentanyl overdose.

Gray now claims it will help clear all the fired cops — even Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis officer filmed with his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes as Floyd begged, “I can’t breathe.”

“None of these guys — even Chauvin — actually killed him,” Gray told the Los Angeles Times of the May 25 death that has been ruled a homicide.

“He killed himself,” Gray said of Floyd, whose death sparked months of protests.

“We are going to show that my client and the other cops were doing their jobs,” he said.

He said he will base his case on toxicology and autopsy reports, which found fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd’s system.

Recently released police body-camera footage also gave a fuller picture of the arrest, including the disappearance of a white spot on Floyd’s tongue that looks like “2 milligrams of fentanyl, a lethal dose,” Gray has said.

Floyd also told the officers he’d been “hooping,” slang for taking drugs, the report noted.

Chauvin is charged with Floyd’s murder. Lane, Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao each face charges of aiding and abetting murder and aiding and abetting manslaughter.