J. Alexander Kueng: 5 things about the officer sentenced to 3.5 years for the murder of George Floyd

• J. Alexander Kueng, Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are the four police officers convicted of the murder of George Floyd.
• He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manslaughter in October 2022.
• Kueng was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

J.Alexander Kueng, one of the former Minneapolis cops responsible for the death of George Floyd, was sentenced to prison on Friday (December 9). Kueng, 29, received 3.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Kueng pleaded guilty in a plea deal and the state agreed to drop the aiding and abetting charge of second-degree unintentional homicide, according to CNN.

Keung appeared remotely for sentencing. He is currently serving a three-year federal sentence at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons’ Elkton Facility in Lisbon, Ohio for violating the civil rights of George Floyd. “Alexander Kueng’s conviction for his role in the murder of George Floyd provides another piece of justice for the Floyd family,” the lawyers said. Ben Crump🇧🇷 Antonio Romanucci, Y jeff storms — the team representing the Floyd family — said in a statement. “As the family navigates another Christmas season without George, we hope moments like this continue to bring them some peace, knowing George’s death was not in vain.”

In February 2022, J. Alexander Kuengsuction rail, Y for you they were convicted of rape by George Floyd civil rights when they failed to secure medical care for Floyd when the officer Derek Chauvin he pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck, resulting in his death. Kueng and Thao were also accused of failing to intervene when Chauvin injured Floyd.

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In the now-viral video of George’s death, Chauvin is the officer who pins George to the ground with his knee behind the black man’s head. Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng were reportedly holding George’s legs and back respectively, while Tou Thao ordered spectators to “go back to the sidewalk”. George Floyd’s death has unleashed a wave of outrage, followed by numerous protests against systemic racial oppression and police brutality.

He was one of two officers who first confronted George Floyd.

It was Officers Lane and Kueng who approached George Floyd after someone at the Cup Foods Market reported a man buying merchandise with a counterfeit $20 bill, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Hennepin County Attorney. According to the document, obtained from hollywood life, officers approached George’s car, with Lane talking to George while Kueng talked to the front seat passenger. Officer Lane ordered George out of the vehicle, put his hands on him and handcuffed him. Officers Chauvin and Thao arrived shortly after. The four tried to get Floyd into a police car, while George fought back, saying he was claustrophobic.

Chauvin finally pinned George to the ground, one knee pressed against his neck. Chauvin held his knee there for nearly nine minutes. At around 8:24 pm, George stopped moving. J. Alexander Kueng checked her pulse when an ambulance arrived. George Floyd was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

He received his law enforcement diploma months before the murder of George Floyd.

Like Officer Lane, J. Alexander Kueng was relatively new to MPD. He got his police license in August 2019, at the same time Lane got his license.

Keung had no previous complaints against him.

Unlike officer Tou Thao, who was indicted in 2017 for an alleged incident of police brutality in 2014 (and who also had six police complaints against him at the time of his arrest), J. Alexander Kueng does not he had complaints against him. . before your shot.

His family didn’t talk about him at first.

Although a relative of Officer Lane defended him for stellar grandstand (“He doesn’t have a bad bone in his body”), one of Kueng’s relatives was not in the mood to talk. “There’s no way to comment,” a local relative said to the post, “so don’t even start.”

His fellow former officers also received prison sentences.

Derek Chauvin received 21 years for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, in addition to the 22.5 years he received in June 2021 for second and third degree murder and second degree manslaughter.

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