One of the black police officers at the scene of the killing of George
Floyd by a white officer in Minneapolis in May has a Nigerian father.
Alex Kueng who joined the police largely because he believed diversity
could force change in a Police Department long accused of racism,
New York Times reported that
Mr Floyd, whose name has been painted on murals and scrawled on protest
signs, has been laid to rest. Mr Kueng, who faces charges of aiding and
abetting in Mr Floyd’s death, is out on bail, hounded at the supermarket by strangers and denounced by some family members.
Long before Mr Kueng was arrested, he had wrestled with the issue of
police abuse of black people, joining the force in part to help protect
people close to him from police aggression. He argued that diversity
could force change in a Police Department long accused of racism.
He had seen one sibling arrested and treated poorly, in his view, by
sheriff’s deputies. He had found himself defending his decision to join
the police force, saying he thought it was the best way to fix a broken
system. He had clashed with friends over whether public demonstrations
could actually make things better.
“He said, ‘Don’t you think that that needs to be done from the inside?’” his mother, Joni Kueng, recalled him saying after he watched protesters block a highway years ago. “That’s
part of the reason why he wanted to become a police officer — and a
black police officer on top of it — is to bridge that gap in the
community, change the narrative between the officers and the black
community.”
As hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against the police after
Mr Floyd’s killing on May 25, Mr Kueng became part of a national debate
over police violence toward black people, a symbol of the very sort of
policing he had long said he wanted to stop.
Derek Chauvin, the officer who placed his knee on Mr Floyd’s neck for
more than eight minutes, has been most widely associated with the case.
He faces charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter;
Mr Kueng and two other former officers were charged with aiding and
abetting the killing. At 26, Mr Kueng was the youngest and least
experienced officer at the scene, on only his third shift as a full
officer.
The arrest of Mr Kueng, whose mother is white and whose father was from
Nigeria, has brought anguish to his friends and family. “It’s a gut
punch,” Ms Kueng said. “Here you are, you’ve raised this child, you
know who he is inside and out. We’re such a racially diverse family. To
be wrapped up in a racially motivated incident like this is just
unfathomable.”
Two of Mr Kueng’s siblings, Taylor and Radiance, both of whom are
African-American, called for the arrests of all four officers, including
their brother. They joined protests in Minneapolis.
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