Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty in December to federal civil rights charges in George Floyd's killing. The federal judge has now signaled he will accept the terms of the deal.
Former Minneapolis police office Derek Chauvin, who was convicted last year for the 2020 death of George Floyd, has filed an appeal claiming that jurors were too biased in the case.
A report commissioned in the wake of the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer found that the organization engages in discriminatory policing and surveillance and personalized racism runs rampant.
Nearly a dozen lawsuits have been filed on behalf of more than 60 people that were injured or arrested during the George Floyd protests in Denver during 2020.
Prosecutor Manda Sertich singled out each former Minneapolis officer in George Floyd's civil rights trial, stating that they did nothing as a man was dying "right before their eyes."
Tou Thao, one of the three former Minneapolis officers charged with violating George Floyd's civil rights, testified that his role at the scene was crowd control and he didn't see what Derek Chauvin was doing.
