Federal prosecutors were ready to arrest the white ex-cop if the jury had found him not guilty of all charges or the case had ended in a mistrial
Under those circumstances, they had arranged for the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office to charge him by criminal complaint so he could be arrested right away
Following his arrest, feds would then have asked a grand jury to indict him
This contingency plan did not materialize as the jury found him guilty on all charges – 2nd-degree murder, 3rd-degree murder and 2nd-degree manslaughter
The DOJ is now planning to indict him and the three other cops involved in Floyd’s death on civil rights charges, a source said
Chauvin is to be indicted over both Floyd’s death and a 2017 incident where he knelt on a black 14-year-old boy’s neck for nearly 17 minutes
J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao to be indicted over Floyd’s death
They face trial together on August 23 on state charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter
