The three other officers who were present during George Floyd's fatal arrest have been charged.
. Additionally, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has also increased former officer Derek Chauvin's murder charge to second-degree murder.
Floyd, a 46-year-old black man living in Minnesota, died after Chauvin held him down by the neck with his knee for more than seven minutes when he was arrested for suspicion of forgery outside a deli. Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng were also seen holding down Floyd, while Tou Thao was spotted near the others in the video. The
reports that per county jail records, Kueng is in custody and warrants were issued for Lane and Thao.by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. At the time, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Chauvin had been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. Per CBS,"Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines indicate two different possibilities for intentional second-degree murder and unintentional second-degree murder. The former sentencing guideline calls for, upon conviction, 25 and a half years in prison, whereas the latter calls for 12 and a half years."that it would begin an investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department after filing a civil rights charge related to Floyd’s death.
CBS reports that the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s final autopsy report said that the cause of death was homicide, due to cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression.
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