Former American police officer Derek Chauvin convicted of the murder of George Floyd is appealing.
In June 2020, he was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison. According to court documents just released, Derek Chauvin and his lawyers have therefore decided to attack fourteen points of the sentence handed down by the Minnesota justice. He complains in particular that the judge did not order the solitary confinement of the jurors for the duration of the trial.
His conviction had been greeted with great relief in the country, whether by the authorities or by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Before Derek Chauvin, only a dozen American police officers had received prison sentences for murders committed in the line of duty.
Back to the facts
On May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer, wanted to arrest George Floyd, suspected of having used a fake $ 20 bill to buy cigarettes. With three colleagues, he had pinned him to the ground, before kneeling on his neck.
The policeman had maintained his pressure for nearly ten minutes, indifferent to the groans of George Floyd but also to the pleas of distraught passers-by, even once the pulse of the forty-something had become undetectable.
The scene, filmed and uploaded by a witness, quickly went viral and sparked giant protests against racism and police violence in the United States and around the world.
Derek Chauvin has always assured to have followed the procedures in force in the police force to control a recalcitrant suspect.
His three former colleagues, Tou Thao, Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, are to be tried in March 2022 for “complicity in murder” also by the justice of Minnesota.
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