The assassination of George Gloyd sparked a wave of racial protests in the US, unprecedented since the assassination of Martin Luther King in the late 1960s.
The ex-cop Alexander Kueng was sentenced this Friday to three and a half years in prison for his involvement in the murder of the Afro-American George Floyd in May 2020, an event that triggered a wave of racial protests in the United States.
The sentence comes pursuant to an agreement reached by Kueng and the Prosecutor’s Office for which the former agent pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a homicide in the second degree on the first day of this trial, by state highway, in October.
In exchange, he withdrew the accomplice to second degree unintentional murder.
Kueng appeared virtually in court in Hennepin, Minnesota from Ohio federal prison, where he is serving a sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights in another federal trial against him.
Floyd died on May 25, 2020 after one of Kueng’s colleagues, now former agent Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee against the neck and back of the African-American, who was handcuffed and lying face down, for more than nine minutes.
The incident sparked a wave of protests and race riots in USA unseen since the assassination of Martin Luther King in the late 1960s.
Another police officer, Thomas Lane, a rookie officer on his fourth day on the job, tied Floyd’s legs together during the arrest, while Kueng held his torso and agent Tou Thao held back a crowd of angry bystanders.Chauvin was convicted last year of murder and manslaughter involuntary in a state trial and was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison.
Alsopleaded guilty to federal charges of violating Floyd’s civil rights in December and was sentenced to 21 years in prison, which will run concurrently with your state judgment.