ST. PAUL, Minn. – Attorney General Keith Ellison says ex-officer Derek Chauvin’s 245-month federal sentence for depriving George Floyd and Jonathan Pope of their civil rights is “another step of accountability on the road to justice.”
Chauvin pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer, resulting in his death. He also admitted to willfully depriving the 14-year-old Pope’s civil rights in 2017 by kneeling on his neck and causing injury.
Ellison’s office led the state’s successful prosecution of Chauvin on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges. The federal sentence will be served concurrently with his 22-and-a-half-year state prison sentence.
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