{"id":251128,"date":"2022-07-07T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=251128"},"modified":"2022-07-07T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:27:50","slug":"chauvin-sentenced-to-21-years-in-prison-violating-george-floyds-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=251128","title":{"rendered":"Chauvin sentenced to 21 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd\u2019s civil rights, telling the former Minneapolis police officer that what he did was \u201csimply wrong\u201d and \u201coffensive.\u201d U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sharply criticized Chauvin for his actions on May 25, 2020, when he pinned Floyd to the pavement outside a Minneapolis corner store for more than 9 minutes as he lay dying. Even so, Magnuson\u2019s sentence was at the low end of the 20 to 25 years called for in a plea agreement in which he will serve the federal sentence at the same time he serves his 22 1\/2-year sentence on state charges of murder and manslaughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd\u2019s civil rights, telling the former Minneapolis police officer that what he did was \u201csimply wrong\u201d and \u201coffensive.\u201d U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sharply criticized Chauvin for his actions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251130,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251128\/revisions\/251130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}