‘YOU KILLED A MAN IN COLD BLOOD’
Officer in Floyd death case is confronted by angry shopper
A FURIOUS shopper confronted one of the officers involved in the death of George Floyd after he was given bail.
J Alexander Kueng was shopping at a Cub Food store in Plymouth, Minnesota, a day after he was released from the Hennepin County jail on £600,000 bail.
Kueng, 26, was one of three officers arrested after doing nothing when senior officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Mr Floyd’s neck as the fraud suspect pleaded: ‘I can’t breathe.’
Keung was with a friend when the woman asked him for his name. He responded: ‘Yeah, that’s me.’
The unnamed woman said: ‘So you’re out of prison and you’re comfortably shopping in Cub Foods as if you didn’t do anything?’ Kueng, who was holding a packet of Oreo cookies, replied that he wouldn’t call it ‘comfortably’ and that he was stocking up on ‘necessities’.
Following the disgraced officer, she chastised him further throughout the two minute twenty-second video, telling him: ‘You don’t have the right to be here. You killed somebody in cold blood. You do not have the right to be here.’
‘We don’t want you to get your stuff. We want you to be locked up!’ she added.
Looking sheepish, the former officer admitted: ‘I can understand that,’ before adding ‘I’m sorry you feel that way.’
Kueng is one of the three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.
Kueng and former officer Thomas Lane, 37, were the first to respond to the call on May 25 that a man – later said to be Mr Floyd – had been trying to use a counterfeit $20 bill at a deli.
Both officers were rookies, having just seven days’ experience between them.
They handcuffed Mr Floyd and attempted to put him inside their squad car before relinquishing authority to Chauvin, who arrived soon after.
According to charging documents, Lane – who initially took Mr Floyd into custody – held down the father-of-five’s legs, while Keung held his back and Chauvin knelt down on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds.
Chauvin, 44, is now facing charges of second degree murder of Mr Floyd.
Prosecutors last week said there was a one minute error in their timings and that Mr Floyd was held down to seven minutes but that it did not change their case against the four officers.
Mr Floyd’s death at the hands of the officers has sparked global outrage and prompted demonstrations under the banner: ‘Black Lives Matter’.
‘We want you to be locked up!’