JUST IN: Two former police officers convicted on federal charges in the death of George Floyd both sentenced to prison terms.
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In a separate hearing, Magnuson sentenced Thao, who had been a nine-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department at the time of Floyd's death, to 3 1/2 years in prison, also followed by two years of supervised release, KSTP reported.Prior to sentencing Kueng, Floyd's cousin Sabrina Montgomery and his girlfriend, Courtney Ross, gave victim impact statements.
"All of these men deserve to serve longer sentences," Montgomery said, according to KSTP. "The system these officers operated in is flawed, but again, where is their humanity?" Both Kueng, 28, and Thao, 35, were convicted by a federal jury in February along with their former police colleague Thomas Lane, 39, who received aFederal prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 6 1/2 years for Lane, which according to federal sentencing guidelines, was the maximum.
Prosecutors said Kueng, Thao and Lane, who was also a rookie cop, all failed to intervene as the handcuffed, unarmed 46-year-old Black man was pinned under the knee of their senior officer, Derek Chauvin, for more than nine minutes on May 25, 2020, outside a Minneapolis convenience store where Floyd was accused of using a phony $20 bill to buy cigarettes.
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