MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – The white Minneapolis cop who pinned an unarmed black guy with a knee to the throat before the guy passed away was apprehended and charged with murder, a district attorney stated on Friday, after three nights of violent protests rocked the Midwestern city.
Derek Chauvin, the officer seen on a spectator’s mobile phone video kneeling on George Floyd’s neck on Monday before the 46- year-old male died, has actually been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, Hennepin County Lawyer Mike Freeman informed a news instruction.
” He is in custody and has been charged with murder,” Freeman stated of Chauvin. “We have evidence, we have the resident’s video camera’s video, the horrible, dreadful, awful thing we have actually all seen over and over again, we have the officer’s body-worn came