Derek Chauvin will be sentenced in Federal Court on Thursday after reaching a plea agreement in May.
, 2021, admitting for the first time he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck — even after he became unresponsive — resulting in Floyd's death on May 25, 2020. The white former officer admitted he willfully deprived Floyd of his right to be free from unreasonable seizure, including unreasonable force by a police officer.
He also pleaded guilty to unrelated but similar charges related to excessive use of force against a then-14-year-old boy, John Pope, who is also Black, in 2017. Pope and another woman, who alleges Chauvin assaulted her while he was on the force, have filedin prison to run concurrently with the 22 ½ years he received for his murder conviction in Hennepin County court for the murder of Floyd.
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