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Two former police officers convicted of George Floyd’s death have both been sentenced to prison terms.
Former Minneapolis police officers, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, were sentenced on Wednesday, July 27 by U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson.
Magnuson, who noted that Kueng was a rookie agent at the time of Floyd’s death, sentenced him to three years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, according to St. Paul ABC affiliate KSTP.
In a separate hearing, Magnuson sentenced Thao, who had been a nine-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department at the time of Floyd’s death, to 3 1/2 years in prison, also followed by two years of supervised release, KSTP reported.
US Assistant Attorney Manda Sertich told Magnuson that Kueng admitted during his testimony that he was aware that it was his duty to intervene but that he failed to act.
“All he had to do under MPD policy was try to intervene… but he didn’t say a word. Not a word,” Sertich said, according to KSTP.
Kueng refused to make a statement in court before being sentenced. But his attorney, Thomas Plunkett, spoke on his behalf, telling Magnuson, “He’s a nice young man who tried to help the community by taking on a tough role…and now he’s being sentenced for it.”
Both Kueng, 28, and Thao, 35, were convicted in February by a federal jury, along with their former police colleague Thomas Lane, 39, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison last week for violating Floyd’s civil rights.