Amy Forliti
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Officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s back faces sentencing
J. Alexander Kueng, who is already serving a federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights, will appear at Friday’s sentencing hearing via video from a low-security federal prison in Ohio. → Read More
2 guilty of violating Floyd’s rights to begin federal term
J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao are scheduled to report to the U.S. Marshals Service on Tuesday morning. → Read More
Jury starts deliberating 3 ex-officers’ case in George Floyd killing
The three former officers are charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man pleaded for air before going silent. → Read More
Defense in George Floyd’s killing: Officer spoke up, was ignored
The judge and attorneys have indicated that closing arguments could take almost the whole day Tuesday. → Read More
Officer says he assumed fellow cops were caring for George Floyd
Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane are broadly charged with violating Floyd’s constitutional rights while acting under government authority as Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee onto Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes while the 46-year-old Black man was handcuffed, facedown and pleading for air. → Read More
Prosecutors: Video will show 3 officers violated Floyd’s rights
The three former officers are broadly charged with depriving George Floyd of his civil rights while acting under government authority. → Read More
EXPLAINER: What will judge weigh in sentencing Kim Potter?
The most serious charge against Kim Potter — first-degree manslaughter — carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. → Read More
LIVE: Jury finds Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter over Daunte Wright’s killing
Potter, 49, said she meant to use her Taser on Wright rather than her gun. She is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter. If convicted of the most serious charge, she would face a sentence of about seven years under state guidelines, though prosecutors have said they will seek more. → Read More
Kim Potter on Daunte Wright’s death: Traffic stop ‘just went chaotic’
Former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter took the stand Friday at her manslaughter trial in the shooting death of Black motorist Daunte Wright. → Read More
Potter trial opens 2nd week with Wright autopsy details
Potter, a 26-year veteran, said she meant to draw her Taser to stop Wright after he pulled away and got back in his car as officers tried to arrest him on a warrant for a weapon charge. → Read More
GRAPHIC: Video dominates as trial starts in Daunte Wright killing
Jurors saw video from officers’ body cameras and the police car dashboard that showed Potter threatening to shoot Wright with a Taser as another officer tried to pull him out of his car. → Read More
Mostly white jury seated for Kim Potter’s trial in Daunte Wright’s death
Kim Potter, 49, is charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11 shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist, following a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. → Read More
LIVE: Jury reaches verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial
Rittenhouse, an 18-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, faces life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge against him over the August 2020 fatal shootings of two men and the wounding of a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin. → Read More
GRAPHIC: Rittenhouse jury to resume after fresh mistrial request
Judge Bruce Schroeder did not immediately rule on the request, which stemmed from the defense team’s assertion that it received an inferior copy of a potentially critical video from prosecutors. → Read More
Jury to begin deliberations at Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial
Jurors will begin deliberations Tuesday at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial after two weeks of testimony in which prosecutors and defense attorneys painted starkly different pictures of his actions the night he shot three men on the streets of Kenosha. → Read More
Rittenhouse testimony: ‘I didn’t do anything wrong. I defended myself’
Rittenhouse, 18, is on trial on charges of killing two men and wounding a third during a chaotic protest in the summer of 2020 that was set off by the wounding of a Black man by a white Kenosha police officer. → Read More
Shooting victim says he was pointing his gun at Rittenhouse
Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, ended up getting shot and seriously wounded in the arm by Rittenhouse. Grosskreutz went into action that night after seeing Rittenhouse kill a man just feet away — the second person Rittenhouse fatally shot that night. → Read More
Prosecutor says Kyle Rittenhouse instigated Kenosha bloodshed
Prosecutor Thomas Binger described what he said were “two of the roughest nights that our community has ever seen,” when Kenosha was rocked by rioting, arson and looting over the police wounding of a Black man. → Read More
Ex-cops accused of violating Floyd’s rights face arraignment
A federal grand jury indicted the former Minneapolis officers for allegedly depriving Floyd of his rights while acting under government authority on the day he died. → Read More
Chauvin could face decadeslong sentence in Floyd’s death
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is set to learn his fate as a Minnesota judge sentences him for murder in the death of George Floyd. → Read More