Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will serve more than 20 years in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights.
A federal judge sentenced Chauvin to 252 months, but took seven months off the sentence for the length of service.
Chauvin pleaded guilty in December 2021 to charges of depriving Floyd of his civil rights. The former agent knelt on Floyd’s back and neck for more than nine minutes. As part of the plea deal, Chauvin faced a sentence recommendation between 20 and 25 years.
He was already in prison on state-level murder charges, having been sentenced in June 2021 to 22 and a half years in prison, followed by five years of supervised probation.
The former officer’s plea bargain avoided a second federal trial and the possibility of life in prison, had he been convicted in US District Court.
Federal prosecutors asked the court to have Chauvin’s sentence run concurrently with his state indictments.
Source: CNN Brasil
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