Ex-officer gets 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s rights
TRT World says Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of the murder of George Floyd, has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on US federal charges.
“I really don’t know why you did what you did,” US District Court Judge Paul Magnuson said on Thursday in delivering the sentence.
“To put your knee on a person’s neck until they expired is simply wrong. … Your conduct is wrong and it is offensive,” Magnuson said.
“You must be substantially punished.”
Chauvin, who is white, pleaded guilty in December 2021 to violating the civil rights of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, during his May 2020 arrest for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill to buy a pack of cigarettes.
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