George Floyd Police Officers. The former Minneapolis Police officer who pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck was charged on Wednesday with a new, more serious count of second-degree murder, and the three other officers on. As more information comes out about the four police officers at the center of the death of George Floyd, protesters are calling for more action to be taken against them.
Four Minneapolis police officers were fired Tuesday following the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died on Monday after an officer kneeled on his neck while he was handcuffed on the. A week after George Floyd was seen on a bystander's cellphone video gasping his last breaths with the knee of a former Minneapolis police officer pinned on his neck, three of the four former. All four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd's killing have been charged, the Minnesota attorney general announced.; Charges were elevated for one former officer from third.
The move comes after a video showed an officer kneeling on the neck of Floyd, an unarmed Black man, on Monday.
Alexander Kueng, one of three officers charged with aiding and abetting in the murder of George Floyd, is seen in an artist's sketch as he attends a court.
Chauvin and Floyd sometimes worked overlapping shifts as security guards for a local nightclub, but the club's former owner. Newly released video appears to show four police officers struggling with George Floyd in the back of a patrol car in the minutes before one of the officers pinned his neck to the ground for more. At one point, one of the officers asks for the person's name.