By Sky Palma This Wednesday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 25 years in prison for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, The Grio reports. When he pleaded guilty in December, Chauvin admitted he willfully deprived Floyd of his right to be free from unreasonable seizure, including unreasonable force by a police officer, when he knelt on Floyd’s neck, ultimately killing him back in May of 2020. Chauvin also pleaded guilty to violating the rights of a then-14-year-old Black boy whom he restrained in an unrelated case in 2017 …
