Former Minneapolis officer sentenced to 3 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights

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A former Minneapolis police officer who was found guilty on federal charges of violating the civil rights of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison and two years of supervised release.

FILE - This June 3, 2020 file photo provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota, shows J. Alexander Kueng. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson handed Kueng and Tou Thao a victory when he ruled that the complex formulas for calculating their sentences will use the crime of involuntary manslaughter, rather than murder, as a starting point.

Magnuson will sentence the men in back-to-back hearings Wednesday, July 27, 2022, after they were convicted of violating George Floyd's civil rights when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's neck for 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man was handcuffed and facedown on the street on May 25, 2020. – A former Minneapolis police officer who was found guilty on federal charges of violating the civil rights of J.

 

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