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Sunday, October 6
Derek Chauvin pleads guilty to violating George Floyd's civil rights
The ex-cop Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of George Floyd , the man convicted of murder, according to NPR.
Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, is white; Floyd was African American.
Chauvin is currently in prison, serving a sentence for the murder of 22 years and a half that a Minnesota judge handed down in June. The former police officer has been convicted on charges of murder and manslaughter , for the events of 51 May 2020, when he immobilized George Floyd by the neck with his knee for almost nine minutes.
Chauvin appeared in court on Wednesday to change his guilty plea in the federal civil rights violation case, which was due to go to trial next month.
Chauvin pleaded guilty to intentionally depriving George Floyd of his constitutional rights , while acting under the guise of law, resulting in Floyd’s bodily injury and death.
Chauvin also agreed that the appropriate sentencing base offense level for this offense is murder in the second degree because he used excessive and unreasonable force that resulted in Floyd’s death, and acted willfully , callous and senseless of the consequences to Floyd’s life, the Justice Department reported.
In addition to the charges he faced in connection with the murder of Floyd in 2020, in this case also federal Chauvin was charged with violating the civil rights of a child of 14 Unidentified years at the end of 2017, when “he held Juvenile 1 by the throat and hit Juvenile 1 several times on the head with a flashlight,” according to court documents.
Chauvin’s guilty plea also applies to is The charges, accusing you of unreasonable seizure and unreasonable force by a police officer.
Still facing federal charges J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, the three ex-police officers who were with Chauvin when he pinned Floyd’s chest and face against the asphalt and knelt on his neck for over nine minutes, resulting in his death.
In a federal indictment issued in May, a grand jury said that Chauvin and the other officers “deprived to George Floyd of the right, guaranteed and protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States, not to be deprived of liberty without due process of law ”, which includes the right of the arrested person to“ be free from the willful indifference of a police officer toward his serious medical needs. ”
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