Federal grand jury charges 4 former
Minneapolis cops with violating
George Floyd’s civil rights — Chauvin
also charged in teen arrest
Posted By: NorthernDog, 5/7/2021 1:38:57 PM
A federal grand jury has indicted Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, the Black man whose videotaped death last May during an arrest sparked nationwide protests and demands for the reform of police departments. Chauvin separately was charged in another federal indictment with violating the civil rights of a 14-year-old Minneapolis boy during a September 2017 arrest by holding the boy by the neck and hitting him multiple times in the head with a flashlight “without legal justification.” The new criminal charges revealed Friday come nearly three weeks after
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This is persecution, not prosecution.