Feds want 25 years for Chauvin for violating Floyd's rights [View all]
Source: Associated Press
By AMY FORLITI
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to sentence a former Minneapolis officer to 25 years for violating the rights of George Floyd, saying Derek Chauvins actions were cold-blooded and needless as he knelt on the Black mans neck while Floyd repeatedly said he couldnt breathe.
Chauvin pleaded guilty in December to violating Floyds rights, admitting for the first time that he kept his knee on Floyds neck even after he became unresponsive resulting in Floyds death. Chauvin, who is white, admitted he willfully deprived Floyd of his right to be free from unreasonable seizure, including unreasonable force by a police officer, during the May 2020 arrest.
Floyds killing sparked immediate protests in Minneapolis that spread around the U.S. and beyond in a reckoning over police brutality and discrimination involving people of color.
As part of his plea agreement, Chauvin also pleaded guilty to violating the rights of a then-14-year-old Black boy who he restrained in an unrelated case in 2017.
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