On July 6, a US court ruled former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted last year of killing George Floyd, to 21 years in prison, as he was convicted on separate federal charges related to violating Floyd’s civil rights during his arrest, which led to his death. In May 2020.
The judge said the former policeman “acted unscrupulously.”
Chauvin, who pleaded guilty in December to these federal charges, is already serving a 22-and-a-half-year sentence in a Minnesota prison, after being convicted of killing Floyd in a state trial last year.
Chauvin, 47 years old, admitted that he violated Floyd’s right not to be subjected to an “unjustified arrest” when he knelt on his neck while he was handcuffed for more than 9 minutes, in a murder that was filmed on a mobile phone.
Floyd’s death led to protests in many American cities and around the world against police brutality and racist dealings.
Chauvin’s decision to plead guilty avoided a second criminal trial, but he will almost certainly spend many years behind bars.
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