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July 8, 2022

Federal Judge Sentences Derek Chauvin to 21 Years for Violating George Floyd's Civil Rights
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A federal judge has sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek
Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating the civil rights of George
Floyd. As part of a plea agreement, Chauvin also pleaded guilty to
violating the civil rights of John Pope Jr., a Black teen who was just
14 years old in 2017 when Chauvin grabbed him by the throat, hit him
repeatedly in the head with a flashlight and pressed his knee into the
boy's neck while he was prone, handcuffed and not resisting. Chauvin
will now be moved to a federal prison to serve his sentence concurrently
with his 22-and-a-half-year sentence on state charges of murder and
manslaughter for killing George Floyd in May 2020.


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