Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer who pinned George Floyd to the ground by his neck for nearly 10 minutes, has been found guiltyof second-degree murder, guilty of third-degree murder, and guilty of second-degree manslaughter.
The April 20 verdict came after prosecutors argued for weeks that Chauvin’s actions on May 25, 2020, were a “substantial causal factor” in Floyd’s death.
The prosecution and defense told very different stories about Floyd’s death. Prosectors repeatedly played bystander footage of the final moments of Floyd’s life, showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds as the unarmed Black man pleaded “I can’t breathe” and called out for his mother.
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