Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng were sentenced to 3 1/2 years and three years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights during his May 2020 killing.
Thomas Lane was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in federal prison for his role in the killing of African-American George Floyd.
"To put your knee on another person's neck until they expire is wrong, and thus you need to be substantially punished," US judge tells Derek Chauvin while sentencing him on federal charges.
Two years after the Black American was murdered by a white police officer on a Minneapolis street, President Joe Biden signs an executive order further regulating federal law enforcement.
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Order would require federal law enforcement to review and revise policies on use of force, and it would restrict flow of surplus military equipment to local police, AP news agency reports.
Thomas Lane pleads guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, a week before the two-year anniversary of the case.
Minneapolis police have engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least a decade, including stopping and arresting Black people at a higher rate than white people, says Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
Anyone convicted under the new law will face up to 30 years in prison, ending a history of impunity over what researchers say were thousands of lynchings in America between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and 1950.
Parents of girl are calling for charges after video shows an off-duty police officer putting his knee on their daughter’s neck after breaking up a cafeteria fight.
The body-cam video shows a SWAT officer shot dead Amir Locke less than ten seconds after entering the crime scene on a search warrant.
The jury deliberated for about four days before finding Kim Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of the Black motorist in midwestern Minnesota state in April.
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