A federal judge sentenced one of the former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd to three years in prison for violating Floyd’s civil rights to get medical care, NBC News reports.
J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced Wednesday morning in the first of two hearings into the case. His fellow officer, Tou Thao, was scheduled to be sentenced in a hearing following Kueng’s. Both had been convicted of violating Floyd’s rights in a February trial.
Both Kueng and Thao are scheduled for a state trial in October on charges of charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.