Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering African-American George Floyd, pleads guilty to federal civil rights violations charges in the crime.
It is the first time that Chauvin, who is appealing his murder conviction in state court, admits guilt for holding his knee to Floyd’s neck for nearly 10 minutes until Floyd died, in a case that sparked nationwide protests against police abuse of Black Americans.
Chauvin pleads guilty to one federal charge of use of excessive force against Floyd, violating his constitutional rights, according to local Minnesota media at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis.
He also pleads guilty to a similar charge against a juvenile in 2017.
Chauvin, who was sentenced in June to 22 and a half years in prison by a state judge for the murder of Floyd, faces a sentence of 20 to 25 years in the federal rights case. That would be served concurrently with the sentence in the murder conviction.
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