Derek Chauvin has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he violated George Floyd’s civil rights after he was convicted this year by a state jury of murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death. Chauvin, 45, entered the new plea during a hearing in St. Paul, Minnesota, three months after first pleading not guilty to depriving Floyd, who was Black, of his rights when Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 1/2 minutes while detaining him in May 2020. Federal prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson that Chauvin …
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced on June 16 after his conviction for the murder of George Floyd, a Minnesota court said on Friday, April 23. The sentencing will take place at 1:30 p.m. CT, according to the court schedule. The calendar update came three days after a jury found Chauvin, 45, guilty on charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin’s attorneys will have 60 …
Transcripts of police bodycam videos in the minutes leading up to George Floyd’s death have revealed that he pleaded 20 times that he couldn’t breathe and was told by killer-cop Derek Chauvin that “it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen” to talk. The transcripts for the body camera videos were filed in Minnesota state court on Wednesday, July 8, as part of a motion to dismiss charges against one of the officers involved, Thomas Lane, who expressed concern …
One of the four ex-Minneapolis Police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing will plead not guilty to all charges. J Alexander Kueng, 26, who is charged along with Derek Chauvin, 44, Tou Thao, 34, and Thomas Lane, 37, made his intentions known in a court filing obtained by DailyMail.com. The papers filed by attorney Thomas Plunkett state that the ex-cop intends to plead not guilty and use the defenses of self-defense, justifiable force, and authorized use of force. It …
The National Basketball Association (NBA), has revealed it has decided to paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ onto courts at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Florida when the season restarts next month in order to highlight racism issues suffered in the sport and the US. According to the NBA, the league and the players’ union have decided on the move and the …
New York City’s famous George Washington Monument has been defaced with red paint by Black Lives Matter protesters as national protests continue over the police killing of black American George Floyd, while the New York City Mayor De Blasio prepares to sign a vote that will remove $1billion from the city’s police budget. Mayor Bill Blasio reached an agreement with the city council on …