[BLACK JUROR MISCONDUCT] Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 22 and a half years for exterminating vermin George Floyd

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/derek-chauvin-22-and-a-half-years-
george-floyd.html

https://www.ibtimes.sg/derek-chauvin-conviction-be-overturned-after-photo-
shows-juror-wearing-t-shirt-supporting-george-57204

MINNEAPOLIS — The killing of George Floyd on a Minneapolis corner led to
nationwide protests, a reckoning over racial injustice touching on
virtually every aspect of American life and, on Friday, a substantial
prison sentence — 22 and a half years — for the former police officer,
Derek Chauvin, who ignored Mr. Floyd’s desperate cries for help and
pressed his knee into Mr. Floyd’s neck for what seemed an eternity.

The sentence was less than the 30 years prosecutors had sought, but far
more than the penalty that lawyers for Mr. Chauvin, 45, had requested:
probation and the time he has already spent behind bars. The sentence
means the earliest Mr. Chauvin could be eligible for release on parole,
experts said, would be in 2035 or 2036, when he is close to 60 years old.

In delivering Mr. Chauvin’s sentence on Friday, Judge Peter A. Cahill
referred to the “particular cruelty” of the crime, which was captured in a
widely shared cellphone video, as Mr. Chauvin held Mr. Floyd down for more
than nine minutes in May 2020. Mr. Floyd could be heard crying out more
than 20 times that he could not breathe.

Shortly after reading the sentence from the bench, Judge Cahill issued a
22-page memorandum about his decision, writing, “Part of the mission of
the Minneapolis Police Department is to give citizens ‘voice and
respect.’” But Mr. Chauvin, the judge wrote, had instead “treated Mr.
Floyd without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings
and which he certainly would have extended to a friend or neighbor.”

Relatives of Mr. Floyd expressed relief that Mr. Chauvin was facing
prison, even as they said they believed he deserved a longer term. In the
hearing, they described their anguish and loss in tearful terms. “Why?”
said Terrence Floyd, Mr. Floyd’s brother. “What were you thinking? What
was going through your head when you had your knee on my brother’s neck?”

Gianna Floyd, Mr. Floyd’s 7-year-old daughter, spoke in a prerecorded
video, answering questions about her father. Asked what she would say to
her father if she could, she said, “It would be I miss you and I love
you.”

Mr. Chauvin, dressed in a gray suit and blue face mask and with a freshly
shaven head, sat quietly through much of the proceedings. Offered an
opportunity to address the courtroom, Mr. Chauvin spoke only briefly,
saying that “additional legal matters at hand” prevented him from saying
more. “But, very briefly though,” he said, “I do want to give my
condolences to the Floyd family.”

Mr. Chauvin’s mother, Carolyn Pawlenty, spoke longer, urging the judge to
be lenient and speaking publicly about the case for the first time. She
said the news media and prosecutors had painted a distorted picture of her
son.

“The public will never know the loving and caring man he is,” Ms. Pawlenty
said. “But his family does.”

The killing of Mr. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, by Mr. Chauvin, a white
officer who spent 19 years on the Minneapolis force, led to calls around
the country to defund police budgets, remove statues of historical figures
tied to racism and diversify predominantly white corporate boards. The
sentence offered some closure to a traumatized nation. Still, activists
said there was much more to be done, especially with national police
reform legislation named for Mr. Floyd languishing in Washington.

Mr. Chauvin’s conviction was a rare rebuke by the criminal justice system
against a police officer who killed someone while on duty. Officers are
often given wide latitude to use force, and juries have historically been
reluctant to second-guess them, especially when they make split-second
decisions under dangerous circumstances.

While police officers in America kill roughly 1,000 people each year, Mr.
Chauvin is one of only 11 officers who have been convicted of murder for
on-duty killings since 2005, according to research conducted by Philip M.
Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University.
The lightest sentence for officers has been just less than seven years in
prison, while the harshest was life in prison. The average sentence was
just under 22 years.

The corner in Minneapolis where Mr. Floyd was killed has become a memorial
to what happened. His image has appeared on murals in cities around the
world, and there is a statue of him in Brooklyn. “I can’t breathe!” became
a protest mantra, and when demonstrators chanted, “Say his name!” those
gathered responded with “George Floyd!” followed by the names of so many
others who were victims of police violence.

Mr. Floyd was a father and grandfather, and had been a rapper and star
football and basketball player in high school in Houston. He had moved in
recent years to Minneapolis, looking for a fresh start. In his last years
of life, he worked as a security guard at a homeless shelter and a
nightclub, and had struggled at times with opioid addiction, an affliction
he shared with his girlfriend, Courteney Ross, who testified about it at
Mr. Chauvin’s trial.

Mr. Chauvin has been behind bars since his trial ended in April. The judge
said Mr. Chauvin would be credited with 199 days already served toward his
sentence, including a period he spent in jail before his trial. Officials
said he was being kept in solitary confinement for his own safety.

The maximum sentence allowed under Minnesota law for second-degree murder,
the most serious charge Mr. Chauvin was convicted of, is 40 years. The
jury, which deliberated for about 10 hours following a six-week trial,
also convicted Mr. Chauvin of third-degree murder and second-degree
manslaughter. Under Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines, though, a
presumptive sentence for someone like Mr. Chauvin with no criminal history
is 12 and a half years.

Leading up to the sentencing hearing, Mr. Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric J.
Nelson, had pressed the court for leniency, asserting in a memorandum that
Mr. Chauvin had not known he was committing a crime when he tried to
arrest Mr. Floyd on a report that he had used a fake $20 bill to buy
cigarettes. Mr. Nelson also argued that placing Mr. Chauvin in prison
would make him a target of other inmates.

In seeking a 30-year prison sentence for Mr. Chauvin, prosecutors had
argued that the former officer’s actions had “traumatized Mr. Floyd’s
family, the bystanders who watched Mr. Floyd die, and the community. And
his conduct shocked the nation’s conscience.”

In the end, Judge Cahill said two “aggravating factors” had affected his
decision to sentence Mr. Chauvin to more than 22 years: Mr. Chauvin had
acted with particular cruelty, the judge said, and had abused his
authority as an officer of the law.

As the sentence was read on Friday afternoon, people gathered before
televisions and computer livestreams, while demonstrators waited outside
the courthouse in downtown Minneapolis.

Members of the Floyd family, along with their lawyer Benjamin Crump and
the Rev. Al Sharpton, addressed reporters on the south lawn of the
courthouse grounds. Mr. Sharpton said the sentence was significant, noting
that it represented the longest sentence ever given to a Minnesota officer
for a killing on the job. (Mr. Chauvin was only the second officer in
state history to be convicted of murder for an on-duty killing.)

But Mr. Sharpton said it was not exactly justice. “Justice is George Floyd
would have been alive,” he said.

Others who gathered to hear the decision, including activists who had
followed the case for more than a year, said Mr. Chauvin’s sentence was
too low. “That’s not justice,” one demonstrator said. And Brandon
Williams, Mr. Floyd’s nephew, said: “We were served a life sentence. We
can’t get George back.” Rodney Floyd, Mr. Floyd’s brother, called the
prison term a “slap on the wrist.”

Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general who led the prosecution of
Mr. Chauvin, said the sentence did not reflect justice but was a “moment
of real accountability on the road to justice.”

Mr. Chauvin’s sentencing does not end the legal proceedings in Mr. Floyd’s
killing. Mr. Chauvin also faces criminal charges in federal court, where
he is accused of violating Mr. Floyd’s constitutional rights. Three other
police officers who were involved face a state trial, scheduled for March,
on charges that they aided and abetted second-degree murder and
manslaughter. Those officers were indicted by a federal grand jury as
well.



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