Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to a few years in jail on Wednesday for violating George Floyd's civil rights through the videotaped arrest that killed him on Might 20, 2020. One other former officer, Tou Thao, can be anticipated to obtain his sentence Wednesday.
They're two of the 4 ex-officers beforehand employed by the Minneapolis Police Division who confronted costs for his or her position in Floyd's demise. Kueng, Thao and former officer Thomas Lane have been discovered responsible in federal court docket in February of constitutional violations for what the jury decided was a willful failure to offer needed support to Floyd through the arrest regardless of his apparent want for medical help.
Former officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes within the bystander video that galvanized world protests in opposition to police violence and racism after it surfaced on-line over two years in the past, was convicted on state costs of homicide and manslaughter, after which pleaded responsible final 12 months to violating Floyd's civil rights and the civil rights of a youngster in an unrelated case. He was just lately sentenced to 21 years in federal jail.
Lane, who twice requested if Floyd ought to be rolled onto his facet so he may breathe, was convicted of 1 federal rely and just lately sentenced to 2 1/2 years. Kueng and Thao have been convicted of two counts, with the jury discovering they disadvantaged the 46-year-old Black man of medical care and did not cease Derek Chauvin.
Lane pleaded responsible to a state cost of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter and is awaiting sentencing in that case. Kueng and Thao nonetheless face one other trial, scheduled for Oct. 24, in state court docket, the place they're charged with counts of aiding and abetting second-degree homicide and second-degree manslaughter.