On Friday (June 25), former Minneapolis police officer
Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years or 270 months in prison for the murder of
George Floyd. Hennepin County Judge
Peter Cahill submitted a 22-page memorandum to the sentence order. I prefer you read the legal analysis that show how I determined the sentence in this case, he said. Chauvin will be banned from ever owning a firearm, and is required to submit a DNA sample to the state, per Minnesota law.
The sentence was handed down in Minneapolis where Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder in April, nearly a year after Chauvin knelt into the neck of George Floyd for nine minutes and 29 seconds.