Police who sparked global ‘I can’t breathe movement’ gets 21 Years on a separate abuse case

By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

#USA, July 15, 2022 – Convicted murderer Derek Chauvin will spend the next twenty-one years in prison whether he wins his recent appeal or not.

The former police officer was sentenced to 25 years in state court last year and appealed that decision but charges had also been brought against him in federal court for George Floyd’s death.

He was sentenced on those charges today and received a twenty-one year sentence. His Federal charges will run concurrently with his state charges if he loses his appeal. This means regardless of the outcome of that appeal he will spend two decades behind bars.

Chauvin plead guilty to the federal charges in a plea deal in last December in which he admitted “that he continued to use force even though he was aware that Mr. Floyd had stopped resisting, talking, and moving, and even though he was aware that Mr. Floyd had lost consciousness and a pulse.”

Floyd was not the first person Chauvin treated this way.  A young man brought charges against the former officer in the same case and he was convicted of abusing the then fourteen year old.  Apparently Chauvin admitted that he held the child by the throat and struck the child multiple times in the head with a flashlight, and that he held his knee on the child’s neck, shoulders, and upper back for between fifteen and sixteen minutes, even though the child was face-down on the floor, handcuffed, and not resisting. This was in 2017.

“Derek Chauvin abandoned his sworn oath to uphold the sanctity of life when he callously took George Floyd’s life and when he violently assaulted a 14-year-old child.  Chauvin’s actions constituted a grave abuse of police authority and a clear violation of these individuals’ civil rights,” said Attorney Andrew Luger.

Chauvin got the chance to speak to Floyd’s children but did not apologize or express remorse.  Instead saying,

“I wish them all the best in their life and that they’ll have excellent guidance in the rest of their life.”

Local media indicate that the former cop will be held in federal prison where he will be safer.