A former Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to 15 days in the county workhouse after pleading guilty to assaulting a Black man during the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by another officer in 2020. Thirty-five-year-old Justin Stetson received two years of probation.
Attorneys Chris Madel, left, and Fred Bruno, right, stand by the side of former Minneapolis police Officer Justin Stetson, who was sentenced for beating Jaleel Stallings amid the civil unrest after George Floyd’s murder, at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Former Minneapolis police Officer Justin Stetson, left, attends court, Monday, Oct.
Stetson told the court that he reaffirmed his guilty plea and stood by his previously filed apology to Stallings, and that he accepts responsibility for his actions.Man wounds himself after Georgia officers seek to question him about 4 jail escapees, sheriff saysHe was sentenced to serve his time in a workhouse, a county-run correctional facility separate from the main jail that houses offenders who have a year or less to serve.
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