The white police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Thursday to more than 20 years in prison by the United States federal justice for having asphyxiated the African-American George Floyd with his knee in May 2020.
The 46-year-old former agent had already been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison by the Minnesota state court, but he appealed the sentence.
The concurrent federal sentence is, for its part, final since it results from a plea agreement.