J. Alexander Kueng is one of four former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter related George Floyd’s death.
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Former Minneapolis Police Officer J. Alexander Kueng.
J. Alexander Kueng is one of the four former Minneapolis police officers being charged with aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter for the role he played in the death of George Floyd.
Kueng was fired after a video of Floyd’s death showed then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the back of his neck for seven minutes as a handcuffed Floyd begged for help, told him and other officers that he couldn’t breathe and eventually became nonresponsive.
Protests erupted around the country after the four police officers on the scene — Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng — have been fired and arrested.
Here’s what you need to know:
J. Alexander Kueng, one of the cops who killed George Floyd, is black. pic.twitter.com/FmvuHt16dh
Margaret Kimberley (@freedomrideblog) June 4,2020
According to the Star Tribune, Kueng was black and raised by a single mother “on Minneapolis’s predominately black north side.” Kueng attended the University of Minnesota, where he worked at the campus security force part-time, and graduated in 2018, ABC-7 reported.
