Police Officer Convicted in George Floyd Case to Be Released from Prison

The second of four police officers who were convicted of charges related to George Floyd’s death has just been released from prison.

J. Alexander Kueng served a 3 1/2 year sentence at Elkton Correctional Institution in Ohio after being found guilty for aiding and abetting manslaughter.

He will be under supervised release until March of next year.

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From The Post Millennial:

J. Alexander Kueng, one of the four former Minneapolis police officers tried over the death of George Floyd, is scheduled to be released from prison on Wednesday. Kueng, who had been serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence for aiding and abetting manslaughter, is set to leave the low-security Elkton Correctional Institution in Ohio.

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His release was confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which noted that federal inmates typically serve 85 percent of their sentences but “there is leeway with the First Step Act and other factors.”

According to the Minnesota Department of Corrections, Kueng will return to Minnesota and be put under supervised release. State law says that most offenders serve two-thirds of their sentences in prison and then the remainder of the sentence is on supervised release. Kueng will be under supervised release until March 2026.

Minneapolis Star Tribune added:

The second of four former Minneapolis police officers convicted in U.S. and state courts for the murder of George Floyd more than 4½ years ago has been released from prison.

J. Alexander Kueng, 31, left the low-security federal prison in Lisbon, Ohio, on Wednesday morning. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) spokesman Donald Murphy confirmed the release to the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Kueng is now on supervised release until March 2026 in connection with his sentence in Hennepin County District Court.

Floyd, who was Black, died while pinned under the knee of officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, at the corner of Chicago Avenue S. and E. 38th Street in south Minneapolis in May 2020. Floyd’s death ignited days of protests and at times deadly and destructive riots.

Chauvin was convicted in Hennepin County District Court in 2021 of second-degree murder and manslaughter. He later pleaded guilty to federal charges for violating Floyd’s civil rights and is serving a 20-year prison term concurrent with his 22-year state sentence. He’s due to be released from prison in November 2037, according to BOP records.