A Minnesota judge has on Thursday (today) ordered to bring in a new charge against a police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of choking a 46-year-old black man named George Floyd on the street of Minnesota (northern regions of the United States) on May 25, 2020.
Derek Chauvin already faces custody of second-degree murder and assassination following George Floyd’s killing.
According to the details, prosecutors have now demanded to redeem a third-degree murder charge against the accused.
However, Judge Peter Cahill has agreed to restore the third-degree murder charge, which bears a maximum punishment of 25 years against the cop.
Previously in 2020, intense sit-ins had erupted after a video surfaced on social media which showed a black man named George Floyd being strangled on the street of Minnesota by a police officer while the man was saying in a low voice. “I can’t breathe, don’t kill me.”
Four police officers had been suspended after the video surfaced.
Minnesota police had told that George Floyd was working as a security guard at a hotel when he was found drunk on another person’s car and resisted when police asked him to get off.
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Moreover, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had launched an investigation into the incident.
On the other hand, A lawyer for George Floyd had said in a memorial service that a “pandemic of racism” caused his death.
“It was the pandemic of racism and discrimination that caused his death,” he added.
Moreover, The Black Lives Matter demonstrations – some of which turned violent – had become a central political issue in the run-up to November’s US presidential elections 2020.
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