A court filing Monday indicates that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will plead guilty Wednesday in the federal civil rights case related to his killing of George Floyd, whose death set off protests & demands for reform of police departments nationwide in 2020.
Chauvin, who is white, was convicted in April of Minnesota state charges of murder & manslaughter at a trial for Floyd’s killing. He was sentenced in July to 22-and-a-half years in prison.
Weeks after his conviction, federal prosecutors obtained a criminal indictment of Chauvin & 3 other Minneapolis cops for violating the civil rights of the 46-year-old Floyd during a May 2020 arrest for using a counterfeit bill in a purchase.
Chauvin had held his knee on or around the neck of a handcuffed & prone Floyd for more than 9 minutes that day as 3 of the other cops helped restrain Floyd. The 4 former officers had pleaded not guilty in the federal case.
On Monday, the Minneapolis federal court docket of the civil rights case against the cops was updated to note that Chauvin will appear for a change of plea hearing on Wednesday morning in St. Paul, Minnesota. Such hearings are held when a defendant plans to plead guilty.
There was no indication that the other defendants, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng & Thomas Lane, are changing their pleas in the case.
Those 3 men are set to go on trial in state court next year on criminal charges of aiding & abetting second-degree murder & aiding & abetting second-degree manslaughter after they face trial on the federal civil rights charges. They have pleaded not guilty in the state case.
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Source: CNBC
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