# Derek Chauvin convicted of murdering George Floyd (2021)

Date: 2021

On April 20, 2021, a Minnesota jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, who died after Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes. It was the first time in Minnesota history that a white police officer was convicted of murdering a Black civilian. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison led the state prosecution; Chauvin was later sentenced to 22.5 years.

## Drivers

- Supranational rule-of-law accountability pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-supranational-accountability-pressure

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## Methodology

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