Federal grand jury brings indictments against former Minneapolis police officers who murdered George Floyd
The four former Minneapolis police officers who participated in the murder of George Floyd last year were indicted on Friday by a grand jury with charges of federal civil rights crimes. Separately, Derrick Chauvin—who was found guilty on April 20 of all three counts of murder for kneeling on George Floyd’s neck and causing his asphyxiation—was also indicted on two counts of civil rights violations for a 2017 assault on a Minneapolis teenager.
The two grand jury indictments—filed in the US District Court of Minnesota—were published by the US Department of Justice along with a press release that states, “The first indictment charges former Minneapolis Police Department officers Derek Chauvin, 45; Tou Thao, 35; J. Alexander Kueng, 27; and Thomas Lane, 38, with federal civil rights crimes for their roles in the death of George Perry Floyd Jr.”