Ex-cop to be sentenced for Floyd murder
Former policeman Derek Chauvin could be ordered behind bars for 30 years yesterday when he is sentenced for the murder of African American George Floyd.
Chauvin and three colleagues arrested Floyd, 46, in May last year on suspicion of having passed a fake $20 bill in a store in Minneapolis.
Chauvin then pinned Floyd on the street and knelt on the back of Floyd's neck for nearly 10 minutes, indifferent to the dying man's groans and to the pleas of distraught passers-by.
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