Two ex-Minneapolis officers sentenced to prison over George Floyd killing

J Alexander Kueng handed three years and Tou Thao three and half for role in Floyd's 2020 death, which sparked worldwide protests

The last two former Minneapolis police officers convicted of violating George Floyd's civil rights during his May 2020 killing were sentenced on Wednesday in federal court to three- and three-and-a-half-year penalties a judge said reflected their level of culpability in a case that sparked worldwide protests as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.

J Alexander Kueng was sentenced to three years and Tou Thao received three-and-a-half. They were convicted in February of two counts of violating Floyd's civil rights. The jury found they deprived the 46-year-old Black man of medical care and failed to stop Derek Chauvin as he knelt on Floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes.