Minneapolis police officer convicted in George Floyd’s death set for federal sentencing

July 5 (Reuters) – Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin can be sentenced later this week for violating the civil rights of George Floyd in the course of the arrest that resulted in Floyd’s killing.

Chauvin, who has already been sentenced to 22-1/2 years in jail for intentional second-degree, third-degree homicide, and second-degree manslaughter by a state court docket, pleaded responsible to the federal civil rights costs in December.

After receiving studies that he was suspected of passing a counterfeit invoice, officer Chauvin detained Floyd, a Black man, in Might 2020 by kneeling on his neck as three different officers watched. The incident result in Floyd’s loss of life and triggered a wave of huge protests throughout the nation and the world.

Federal prosecutors have known as for Chauvin to face 25 years behind bars within the civil rights case, to be served concurrently with the state sentence. Protection attorneys haven’t made their sentencing paperwork public.

Late final month a Hennepin County, Minnesota, choose rescheduled the trial of two former Minneapolis cops charged alongside Chauvin within the case.

Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Enhancing by Aurora Ellis

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