US President Joe Biden rated the verdict to the Ex-Police Dereke Cherin, who killed the African America George Floyd. Reports about it The Guardian.
Biden noted that he is not familiar with all the circumstances, which were taken into account by the court. However, at the same time, he stressed that in accordance with the current rules, the sentence seems to him “appropriate.”
Previously, the court in Minneapolis sentenced the ex-policeman to 22.5 years in prison. As CNN notes, the prosecution required for the shovina 30 years in prison, and the defense insisted on the conditional period and accounting already left.
On May 25, 2020, Derek Schovin killed the 46-year-old African American man. George Floyd during the arrest in Minneapolis. The police were put on the suspect on the asphalt, and Sovin kept Floyd, coming to him on her knee. He complained that he had nothing to breathe, and then lost consciousness. He was taken to the hospital, where he soon died. Although shortly before the Floyd happened, the potent drugs took, the cause of the death of the physician was recognized precisely the actions of Sovina.
The death of an African American provoked the largest wave of protests in American history. Four policemen after what happened was fired. On April 21, 2021, the jurors have already recognized the sovina guilty of a crime.