# J. Alexander Kueng *Police officer present at the restraint of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.* J. Alexander Kueng was one of three officers present alongside [[Derek Chauvin]] when George Floyd, 46, was restrained at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue South in [[Minneapolis]] on May 25, 2020. According to the record's timeline, all three did not intervene.[^1] The other two officers were [[Tou Thao]] and [[Thomas Lane]].[^1] An entry in the project's at-issue ledger states that Kueng, Thao and Lane were released on bond before trial, and that Chauvin was not held at the [[Sherburne County Jail]].[^2] The record assembled for this article does not establish the charges brought against Kueng, any verdict, or any sentence. This article does not state them. ## Who The timeline names Kueng as one of four officers at the scene. Floyd had been detained on suspicion of passing a counterfeit $20 bill. Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes 29 seconds while Floyd was handcuffed and lying prone, and a 17-year-old bystander filmed the restraint.[^1] The timeline identifies Kueng only by his presence and by his failure to intervene. It attributes no other act to him.[^1] The same timeline entry records two facts about the department. First, the neck restraint was listed as an authorized technique in the Minneapolis Police Department's use-of-force policy. Second, Chauvin had 17 prior civilian complaints in 19 years of service, and none produced discipline affecting his employment.[^1] Both facts rest on a secondary source. The record carries neither the policy text nor the disciplinary files. ## In the at-issue record Entry AI-Sherburne-092 of the at-issue ledger, ranked 92 in its section *IV. THE ASK (86–100)*, states that Chauvin was not held at the Sherburne County Jail. It also states that Thao, Kueng and Lane were not held there because "all three were released on bond pretrial."[^2] The ledger flags the entry as a negative finding asserted affirmatively.[^2] The entry gives as its anchor a White House presidential action of March 2026, *Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud*. The record does not show that this document addresses the custody of these officers.[^2] The entry lists a single agency source on the justice.gov domain, but that source is not in the record. The record also carries no bond order, booking record or court filing. The custody facts therefore stand as the ledger's statement and are not independently established. ## In the Minnesota record ### Who - Kueng was one of four officers present when George Floyd was restrained. The other three were Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao and Thomas Lane.[^1] ### What - Kueng was present while Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes 29 seconds, and he did not intervene.[^1] ### When - May 25, 2020.[^1] ### Where - 38th Street and Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Wikipedia, *Murder of George Floyd* (cited via timeline entry TL-0881, dated May 25, 2020). This source establishes the date and location; Floyd's age; the suspected counterfeit $20 bill; the 9-minute-29-second restraint; the four officers present and the three who did not intervene; the listing of the neck restraint in MPD use-of-force policy; and Chauvin's 17 complaints in 19 years. It is a secondary source, and no primary source for these facts is in the record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd [^2]: Executive Office of the President, *Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud* (March 2026). This is the anchor cited by at-issue entry AI-Sherburne-092 for its statements that Chauvin was not held at the Sherburne County Jail and that Thao, Kueng and Lane were released on bond pretrial. The record does not show that this document supports those custody facts. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/establishing-the-task-force-to-eliminate-fraud/