Chauvin had initially pleaded not guilty in September in this federal civil rights case.
The ex-cop Derek Chauvin, sentenced in June to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of the afroamericano George Floyd, pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating the victim’s civil rights in a second federal court case.
Chauvin appeared in a Minnesota District court, where he pleaded guilty to two counts, one for violating Floyd’s civil rights and the other for violating those of a minor under 14 in a separate case.
The former police officer, who has been since April confined solitary to the Minnesota maximum security prison after a jury found him guilty of murdering Floyd in May 2020, went to the court of Saint Paul, in that state, dressed in an orange jumpsuit.
The inmate responded calmly when federal judge Paul Magnuson asked him if he understood what he was doing. “Yes, your honor,” replied Chauvin, 45.
The Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that by virtue of the plea agreement reached with Chauvin, it will request a sentence of 25 years in prison for the ex-agent, who will comply simultaneously with the He received a 22 1/2 year prison sentence after being tried by a state court.
Magnuson did not set a date for the reading of the sentence.
Chauvin had initially pleaded not guilty in September in this federal civil rights case.
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According to the indictment in this case, Chauvin deprived Floyd of his constitutional right “to be released” after being captured, which includes “the right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer.”
Chauvin’s colleagues, former police officers Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng, were also charged with failing to intervene in the face of “unreasonable use of force” by Chauvin, the indictment indicates.
Chauvin, Thao and another former agent, Thomas Lane, are accused of failing to provide aid to the African American.
Chauvin’s three colleagues pleaded not guilty to the federal charges in September and are pending trial in March 2022 before a state court for allegedly contributing and being complicit in the African-American’s death.
The death of Floyd on May 25, 2020 at the hands of Chauvin, who for more than nine minutes pressed his knee on the victim’s neck, unleashed a huge wave of protests in the United States that lasted for months in the face of police brutality against African Americans. (I)
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