The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police

Space_Time · Jun 27, 2020

Wow, this is amazing! I wonder if this had come out right away maybe things might not have gotten so out of hand. Please read the whole thing at the link:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/minneapolis-police-officer-kueng.amp.html

The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police

Alex Kueng is one of four former officers accused of crimes in the killing of Mr. Floyd, which happened on his third shift. His decision to join the force had frayed friendships.

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Joni Kueng, mother of Alex Kueng, one of the police officers arrested in the death of George Floyd, held a photo of Mr. Kueng and his siblings when they were younger.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

By Kim Barker

June 27, 2020Updated 2:00 p.m. ET

MINNEAPOLIS — There were two black men at the scene of the police killing in Minneapolis last month that roiled the nation. One, George Floyd, was sprawled on the asphalt, with a white officer’s knee on his neck. The other black man, Alex Kueng, was a rookie police officer who held his back as Mr. Floyd struggled to breathe.

Mr. Floyd, whose name has been painted on murals and scrawled on protest signs, has been laid to rest. Mr. Kueng, who faces charges of aiding and abetting in Mr. Floyd’s death, is out on bail, hounded at the supermarket by strangers and denounced by some family members.

Long before Mr. Kueng was arrested, he had wrestled with the issue of police abuse of black people, joining the force in part to help protect people close to him from police aggression. He argued that diversity could force change in a Police Department long accused of racism.
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