One of the former Minneapolis police officers involved in the arrest that led to the death of George Floyd was confronted by a fellow shopper in a Plymouth, Minnesota, over the weekend.
Video posted to social media shows J. Alexander Kueng, who was charged in Floyd’s death and later released on bail, approached by a woman in a Club Foods recording the interaction and asking him, “What’s your name?”
After Kueng confirmed his identity, the woman asked why he is “comfortably shopping” as if he did not do anything wrong.
Kueng, holding a bag of Oreos, a can of Reddi-wip, and a carton of milk, denied that he was shopping “comfortably” and noted he was just picking up “necessities.”
The woman followed Kueng as he walked over to a check-out lane, saying he did not have the “right” to be there because he “killed somebody in cold blood.”
Kueng repeatedly said he would leave as soon as he paid for his groceries, to which the woman said, “We don’t want you to get your stuff. We want you to be locked up.”
The woman loudly announced his identity to the other shoppers and told Kueng he was lucky that his home address wasn’t publicly available. He eventually stopped responding to her.
look who my sister caught at Cub Foods in Plymouth. J. Alexander Keung, one of the officers who lynched #GeorgeFloyd in cold blood. pic.twitter.com/PVX4pFijab
— josiah (@jk3rd_) June 21, 2020
Kueng was one of four police officers who responded to a call about the alleged use of a fake $20 bill in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. During the resulting arrest, Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died on after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes despite his pleas for air.
The officer who pressed a knee to Floyd’s neck, Derek Chauvin, was fired from the department and has been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The three other officers who were involved in detaining Floyd, including Kueng, were also fired and charged with aiding and abetting murder.
Kueng was released on bail Friday after a crowdfunding effort raised the money necessary for his release.
