J Alexander Kueng convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights during 2020 killing, with ex-colleague Tou Thao to be sentenced later
The former Minneapolis police officer J Alexander Kueng was sentenced on Wednesday in federal court to three years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights during the May 2020 killing.Kueng and Thao were convicted in February of two counts of violating Floyd’s civil rights. The jury found they deprived the 46-year-old Black man of medical care and failed to stop Derek Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine and a half minutes.
Lane, who twice asked if Floyd should be rolled on to his side so he could breathe, was convicted of one count and was sentenced last week to two and a half years. “It made a huge difference,” said Mark Osler, a professor at the University of St Thomas School of Law and former federal prosecutor. “The impact of it is already baked in now.”
“Those are some of the calculuses they are going to have to make in terms of, ‘Do I go to trial and risk something worse? Do I think I have a good shot at appeal on the federal case?’” Brandt said.
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