Derek Chauvin faces sentencing on federal charges in George Floyd killingFormer Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will be sentenced this week for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd.
U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson has set Chauvin's sentencing hearing for 2 p.m. Thursday in St. Paul.Chauvin's plea agreement calls for a sentence of 20 to 25 years in prison. Federal prosecutors last month asked for 25 years, on the high end of that range, saying his actions were cold-blooded and needless.
The defense asked for 20 years, saying Chauvin accepts responsibility and is remorseful for what he did, and has already gotten a long sentence from another court for his murder conviction.
Chauvin, who is White, pleaded guilty in December to violating Floyd's rights, admitting for the first time that he kept his knee on Floyd's neck — even as the Black man said he couldn't breathe and after he became unresponsive — resulting in Floyd's death. Chauvin 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...........
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