One of the Minneapolis police officers who knelt on George Floyd’s back to restrain him as he died has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.
Former Minneapolis police officer J Alexander Kueng was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting manslaughter
Attorneys for Kueng placed the blame squarely at the feet of the Minneapolis Police Department, who they said were responsible for poorly training Kueng and his colleagues. Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who is representing the Floyd family, said Kueng’s sentence is ‘yet another piece of justice for the Floyd family.’
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