George Floyd after the verdicts: what happened to Derek Chauvin and the other officers

George Floyd's killing is so culturally large that people often remember the protests more than the follow-through. Legally, the follow-through did happen. In 2023, Minnesota's appeals court upheld Derek Chauvin's murder conviction. Later that year, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. The other former officers did not escape the system either. Reuters reported that J. Alexander Kueng, for example, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison on a state aiding-and-abetting manslaughter conviction. The follow-up here is less shocking than in some of the other stories in retrospective coverage, but it still matters because it answers a basic question people often leave hanging: yes, the convictions stuck.