MINNEAPOLIS — J. Alexander Kueng, a former Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's back during the fatal May 2020 arrest, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison Friday.
judge‚Äôs traditional wooden gavel on white background & shadow detailMINNEAPOLIS — J. Alexander Kueng, a former Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s back during the fatal May 2020 arrest, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison Friday.
A second charge of aiding and abetting in second-degree unintentional murder will be dismissed against Kueng as part of his plea agreement. "J. Alexander Kueng is now the second officer involved in Floyd’s death to accept responsibility through a guilty plea. That acknowledgement hopefully can bring comfort to Floyd’s family and bring our communities closer to a new era of accountability and justice," Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in an October statement on the plea deal.
The two were found guilty of depriving Floyd of his"constitutional right to be free from an officer's unreasonable force when each willfully failed to intervene to stop ... Chauvin's use of unreasonable force.”
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