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Minnesota legal experts are sharing their predictions for Friday’s sentencing of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Former officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are set to go to trial on Aug. 23, and it will be televised.

Local leaders react to Chauvin guilty verdict Allison Needles, The News Tribune © Uncredited In this image from video, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. (Court TV via AP, Pool) Moments after jurors found former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, several local leaders reacted to...

Where The Chauvin Verdict Fits In The Recent History Of High-Profile Police Killings by Rachel Treisman 7:25pm Apr 20, 2021 A sign at a June 2020 protest against racial injustice and police violence in Seattle bears the names of people killed by police. Ted S. Warren / AP After only about 10 hours of deliberation, a jury has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd — an outcome Floyd's civil legal team called "painfully earned justice" in a statement released after the verdict was announced. The trial's...

Embed iframe src "https://www.npr.org/player/embed/869302884/869306854" width "100%" height "290" frameborder "0" scrolling "no" title "NPR embedded audio player" Laquan McDonald: Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder in the October 2014 shooting death of McDonald, a Black teenager. The jury also found him guilty of 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, and acquitted him on one count of official misconduct. It took the jury about eight hours to reach a verdict in the 2018 trial, marking the first time in decades that a Chicago police office...