Chauvin trial: Guilty on all counts
04/20/2021 2:14 pm PDT
MINNEAPOLIS (TCD) --
A Minnesota jury reached a verdict Tuesday afternoon in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of killing George Floyd in 2020.
Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts against him.
Count 1 - Unintentional second-degree murder: guilty
Count 2 - Third-degree murder: guilty
Count 3 - Second-degree manslaughter: guilty
Sentencing will take place in eight weeks, according to the judge.
The jury reached their verdict after about 10 hours of deliberations over two days.
George Floyd died in May 2020.
Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, 45, was recorded on video by bystanders as he pinned his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes on May 25, 2020. Floyd was later pronounced dead. Chauvin was fired.
Chauvin was charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
The Minnesota jury was made up of six white people and six Black or multiracial people, the Associated Press reports.
Prosecutors said Floyd, who was 46, died of asphyxia from low oxygen when Chauvin knelt on his neck as former officers J. Alexander Kueng knelt on his buttock/thigh area and Thomas Lane knelt and held his legs, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. Former officer Tou Thao kept bystanders at bay.
Floyd was being arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes at a store in south Minneapolis.
Floyd died on May 25, 2020. Chauvin was arrested on May 29, 2020.
The other officers at the scene -- Thao, Kueng and Lane -- were each charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder while committing a felony, and with aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter with culpable negligence, the Star-Tribune reported.
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