The former police officer had already been convicted of murdering George Floyd. Now he has acknowledged he heard bystanders urging him to check Floyd’s pulse but did nothing.
A Minnesota judge has sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin to 22½ years in prison for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest last year.
He was in LA for the riots after Rodney King was beaten. Thirty years later Jud Kilgore,his Australian wife and their daughter celebrated the Chauvin verdict.
Her comments,captured in a video she posted to Facebook,drew rebukes from state and national Democratic groups.
Before he was convicted of murder and manslaughter over the killing of George Floyd,Derek Chauvin had patrolled the streets of Minneapolis for almost 20 years.
I wonder about justice in those police killings that were not,by chance,recorded on a smartphone.
The former police officer who was filmed kneeling on the neck of the black man last May has been found guilty of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter.
The jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin has found the former police officer guilty on all three charges over the death of George Floyd last year.
Philonise Floyd,George Floyd’s brother,had to hold back the tears as he spoke on the courthouse steps after the verdict.
Life in the United States has taught African Americans to guard against hope. The verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial showed that police can be held accountable.
His murder invaded American lives and haunted dreams. It came at people from their televisions,their telephones and their laptops. The heartlessness of it couldn’t be ignored or shrugged off.