Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to more than 20 years in federal prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights.
Derek, 46, was sentenced to serve 252 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for depriving George Floyd Jr. and a then-14-year-old child of their constitutional rights.
He took a plea deal back in December, admitting he kept his knee pinned on Floyd’s neck when Floyd became unresponsive and also pleaded guilty to willfully depriving a then-14-year-old child of his constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer, resulting in the child’s bodily injury.
He was sentenced on Thursday, July 7, 2022. He was in the courtroom when the judge read the sentence. He was rocking in an orange prison jumpsuit and waved to his mother and friends in the gallery when he was brought in.
