Two former Minneapolis police officers were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for their role in the 2020 murder of George Floyd — an incident which sparked a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.
Alexander Kueng, 28, and Tou Thao, 36, were previously convicted by a federal judge of violating Floyd’s civil rights by showing “deliberate indifference” to his medical needs and failing to intervene to stop the use of “unreasonable force” by another officer, Derek…