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Chauvin’s ‘particular cruelty’ should mean harsher sentence, Minnesota AG says
The former police officer faces up to 40 years in prison for second-degree unintentional murder.
By Timothy BellaThe Washington Post
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The Minnesota attorney general is seeking a harsher prison sentence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin due to the “particular cruelty” he showed in the murder of George Floyd last year, according to court documents filed Friday.
Derek Chauvin
Minnesota Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison argued in a legal briefing that Chauvin, who was convicted of murder and manslaughter charges last week, deserved a more severe sentence after the officer knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes and showed a lack of remorse for the 46-year-old Black man as he yelled out for his mother while detained.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison requests aggravated sentence for Chauvin Defendant thus did not just inflict physical pain. He caused Mr. Floyd psychological distress during the final moments of his life.
Matthew Frank, on April 30 requesting former police officer
Derek Chauvin receive a severe sentence for the murder of
George Floyd.
The legal brief filed in Minnesota’s Hennepin County District Court argued “the facts proven beyond a reasonable doubt at trial demonstrate that five aggravating factors support an upward sentencing departure.”
“A substantial portion of Defendant’s conduct also occurred after Mr. Floyd was in a vulnerable medical state: Defendant continued to kneel on Mr. Floyd’s neck and upper back even after Mr. Floyd said he could not breathe 27 times, for almost four minutes after he became nonresponsive, and for approximately three minutes after officers knew that he had no pulse. Mr. Floyd also was intoxicated, and Defendant knew as much during th
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How did Minneapolis become a place of racism and riots and police misconduct and drug issues and killings? The Mayors of Minneapolis have been democrats since 1978 setting policy’s picking police chiefs receiving salaries and in charge. Was it 43 years of bad democrat DFL leadership that got us here?
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Homicide charges filed in fatal hit-and-run in Plymouth Authorities say Jack Blaschke was driving more than 70 miles-an-hour when he struck a man and his dog. April 30, 2021 2:20pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A Delano man is accused of driving more than 70 miles-an-hour in a street race when he struck and killed a pedestrian and dog in Plymouth this week.
Jack H. Blaschke, 19, was charged Friday in Hennepin County District Court with two counts of criminal vehicular homicide.
Authorities allege that he hit a 65-year-old man and his black Labrador about 9 p.m. Wednesday near County Road 24 and N. 32nd Avenue. Plymouth police and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner s Office have not yet released the victim s identity.