Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, is now expected to plead guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights.
Three former police officers charged in the death of George Floyd are asking that their federal trials be separated from that of Derek Chauvin.indicted earlier this year on federal charges
To bring federal charges in deaths involving police, prosecutors must believe an officer acted under the “color of law,” or government authority, and willfully deprived a person of his or her constitutional rights. That’s a high legal standard. An accident, bad judgment or simple negligence on the officer’s part isn’t enough to support federal charges. Prosecutors have to prove that the officer knew what he was doing was wrong in that moment but that he did it anyway.
The second count alleges that Chauvin willfully deprived Floyd of liberty without due process, including the right to be free from “deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs.” According to a police report from the 2017 encounter, Chauvin wrote that the youth resisted arrest and that, after he was handcuffed, Chauvin “used body weight to pin” him to the floor. The teen, whom Chauvin described as 6-foot-2 and about 240 pounds, was bleeding from the ear and needed two stitches.
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