J. Alexander Kueng, who kneeled on Floyd's back, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in December 2022.

Judge Jerry Blackwell, a Minnesota district court judge who helped prosecute Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd, urged attendees of Sunday’s Martin Luther King Jr. service at Duke University to “retake your place in the march toward the American ideal” and overcome the fear and despair of the times.

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,

J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to 42 months (3.5 years) in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter, which ran concurrent to his three-year federal sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights.

Blackwell is most well known for his role as a special prosecutor in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white police officer responsible for murdering George Floyd almost five years ago by kneeling on his neck — an event that spurred a surge of Black Lives Matter protests across the nation in summer 2020.

Minneapolis police officer convicted of aiding and abetting murder of George Floyd to be released from federal prison.

Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting manslaughter in the murder of George Floyd in May 2020.

An inmate is suing a corrections officer and a trainee who he alleges beat him in what he says they called a "George Floyd challenge" in a New York prison.

A consent decree between the Justice Department and the city of Minneapolis calls for better training and programs in behavioral health.

James Barton claims he was assaulted for 10 minutes after officers allegedly gave him the “George Floyd challenge."

An ex-Minneapolis Police Officer charged in connection to the death of George Floyd was released from federal prison Wednesday.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, J. Alexander Kueng will be released Wednesday from the low-security Elkton correctional facility in Ohio.