Last updated November 20, 2023
The killing of George Floyd in 2020 and the global protests that followed.
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Derek Chauvin's state murder conviction was upheld by Minnesota's appeals court in 2023, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his challenge later that year. The other former officers received prison terms in related state or federal cases.
Many people remember Chauvin's conviction, but not that his appeals mostly failed and the legal system also imposed sentences on the other officers involved.
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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.
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November 20, 2023
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