Here are the key players in trial of ex-cops charged in George Floyd’s killing
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Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after another former officer, Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for about nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed.
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.
Floyd, who was Black, died on May 25, 2020, after another former officer, Derek Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and pleading that he couldn’t breathe. Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back during the arrest, and Thou held bystanders back. Another officer, Thomas Lane, has pleaded guilty to a state charge and is not facing trial.
Among key figures for the trial:
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill handled Chauvin’s trial and is back on the bench for this one. Cahill started in the county public defender’s office in 1984 and worked for 10 years as a prosecutor, serving as top advisor to U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar when she was the county’s head prosecutor.
Cahill, a judge since 2007, is known for being decisive and direct. He allowed livestreaming of Chauvin’s trial because of immense public interest and COVID-19 limitations, saying at a national judicial conference recently that he thought if he hadn’t, the result was “never going to be accepted by the community.”
But cameras are typically not allowed in Minnesota courtrooms, and with COVID-19 restrictions loosening, he’s not permitting livestreaming this time.
Attorney General Keith Ellison led the Chauvin prosecution at the behest of Gov. Tim Walz, after civil rights advocates in the community said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman didn’t have the trust of the Black community.
Ellison, the state’s first African American elected attorney general, previously served in Congress and worked as a defense attorney. He appeared in court at times during Chauvin’s trial, but was not part of the trial team.
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