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#George Floyd death: More charges expected for Derek Chauvin, other cops

George Floyd death: More charges expected for Derek Chauvin, other cops

June 3, 2020 | 2:23pm

A former Minneapolis cop will be hit with an upgraded murder charge in George Floyd’s death and three other ex-cops will be charged as accomplices, according to a report Wednesday.

Derek Chauvin is expected to be charged with second-degree murder, while Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane will be charged with aiding and abetting murder, law-enforcement sources told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is expected to announce the charging decisions at a news conference later in the day.

The dramatic development comes four days after Gov. Tim Walz put Ellison in charge of the racially charged case, replacing Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman.

On Thursday, Freeman had said he wouldn’t “rush” to file charges in Floyd’s death, which came after Chauvin, who is white, was recorded kneeling for nearly nine minutes on the neck of Floyd, who was black.

At the time, Freeman called the cellphone video “graphic, and horrific, and terrible” but added that “there is other evidence that does not support a criminal charge.”

But in the wake of violent protests in Minneapolis and elsewhere around the country on Thursday night, Freeman reversed course on Friday and charged Chauvin with third-degree murder and manslaughter.

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