States struggle with pushback after wave of policing reforms
Some initial reforms have been tweaked or even rolled back after police complained that the new policies were hindering their ability to catch criminals.
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Some initial reforms have been tweaked or even rolled back after police complained that the new policies were hindering their ability to catch criminals.
J. Alexander Kueng's plea came just before jury selection was to begin in the trial for him and fellow ex-officer Tou Thao, who will now undergo trial sans testimony.
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's death. J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thou are both charged with aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
Two former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd's death are heading to trial on state aiding and abetting counts, the third and likely final criminal proceeding in a killing that mobilized protesters worldwide against racial injustice in policing.
Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng are charged with aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter. Experts expect this trial will be much different than Derek Chauvin's trial.
"Mr. Floyd's cause of death is well-settled through evidence presented in courts of law during the criminal and civil trials that were the result of his untimely and horrific death," the letter reads.
On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced that the Rochester man also owed nearly $40,000 in restitution for the fires.
"A Walk to the Store" shares what brought 11-year-old Judeah Reynolds to Cup Foods that day, her emotions watching Floyd's murder and her struggles to comprehend what happened in the weeks to follow.
A post office damaged during the unrest in Minneapolis following George Floyd's murder has reopened for retail services.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys for two former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd were back in court Thursday.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys for two former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd have filed more than 100 motions to limit testimony or evidence at trial — with many requests relying heavily on what happened at the previous two trials in Floyd's death.
J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao are scheduled to report to the U.S. Marshals Service on Tuesday morning.
A group of local musicians playing saxophone, trumpet, drums and more gather at the site of what once was a Speedway gas station across from where George Floyd was killed more than two years ago.
In a kind of Newtonian response to the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis became the epicenter of the culturally seismic "Defund the Police" movement. But that progressive local effort fizzled with a decisive referendum last November.
The marching, the chanting, the passion. Over the past few years, it's become part of the become part of the Minnesota landscape, and it's not just adults who are watching
Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Lane to 36 months Wednesday morning. But there was one piece of information that was caught on the video feed that appeared to take all parties by surprise.
A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd was sentenced Wednesday to three years.
A Texas board on Thursday declined a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.
Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore opened with regular hours Tuesday for the first time in more than two years. The owner almost called it quits, but it was the regulars who convinced him to start over.
Derek Chauvin is serving more than 20 years for the murder and for violating Floyd's civil rights. A plea deal allows him to serve his sentence in a federal prison.
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years for violating George Floyd's civil rights, will do his time at a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado.
Two remaining former officers awaiting trial on state charges in the killing of George Floyd have rejected plea deals.
A judge scheduled a hearing for Monday on the "status of plea negotiations" for the two remaining officers awaiting trial on state charges in the killing of George Floyd, with the hearing coming after the judge's window for accepting any deal appears to have closed.
For some Floyd family members and activists, the penalties were too small — and a bitter reminder of a justice system they say does not treat all people equally.
Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced Wednesday to three-and-a-half years for violating George Floyd's civil rights, while J. Alexander Kueng received a three-year sentence.
