2 Guilty of Violating Floyd's Rights to Begin Federal Term

By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Two of the four former Minneapolis police officers who were convicted of violating George Floyds civil rights during the May 2020 restraint that killed him are scheduled to begin serving their federal sentences Tuesday.

J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao are scheduled to report to the U.S. Marshals Service on Tuesday morning. The Bureau of Prisons typically would assign them to a federal facility, but authorities have not publicly said where they will go. They are scheduled to go to trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter later this month, and it's not known if they will stay close to Minneapolis so they can be transported for trial.

Messages left with their attorneys as well as with several law enforcement agencies have not been returned.

The federal Bureau of Prisons said it cannot release information about Kueng and Thao until they arrive at their destination. But in the cases of their co-defendants former officers Derek Chauvin and Thomas Lane a federal prison assignment was made public before the men reported to custody.