{"id":200153,"date":"2021-06-25T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/25\/he-wont-see-22%c2%bd-months\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T22:44:00","slug":"he-wont-see-22%c2%bd-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/25\/he-wont-see-22%c2%bd-months\/","title":{"rendered":"He Won’t See 22\u00bd Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd, and tried to do the same with many of the people he encountered, (in addition to being a tax cheat) was sentenced to 22\u00bd for murdering George Floyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s nice that he got a sentence commensurate with his actions, which were callous and heinous, but I’m inclined to believe that he’s going to get preferential treatment in terms of prison assignments and by the parole board, so I don’t expect him to serve this in a maximum security prison, which the sentence would generally require, and I expect him to serve only a small portion of the actual sentence, rather than the \u2154 of the sentence generally required for parole:<\/p>\n

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. <\/p>\n

Before Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill announced the sentence inside a courtroom in the Hennepin County Government Center, members of members of Floyd\u2019s family spoke about the impact of his murder. Floyd\u2019s brother Terrence Floyd wept as he struggled to speak. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to know from the man himself,\u201d he said, addressing Chauvin. \u201cWhy? What were you thinking? What was going through your head when you had your knee on our brother\u2019s neck?\u201d <\/p>\n

Philonise Floyd, another of Floyd\u2019s brothers, wiped his eyes as he spoke and asked the judge for closure by giving Chauvin the harshest sentence possible.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to give my condolences to the Floyd family,\u201d Chauvin said in a brief statement before he was sentenced. His defense team has indicated they will appeal.<\/p>\n

Cahill\u2019s decision started with the state\u2019s sentencing guidelines which recommend 12 and a half years in prison for a conviction on unintentional second-degree murder for someone with no criminal history.<\/p>\n

The prosecution asked for 30 years, or twice the highest recommended sentence of 15 years.<\/p>\n

Assistant Attorney General Matthew Frank reiterated the four aggravating factors the prosecution hoped would sway the judge to add years to Chauvin\u2019s prison sentence \u2014 that Chauvin abused his position of authority, treated Floyd with particular cruelty, that the crime was seen by several children and that Chauvin knew the restraint of Floyd was dangerous<\/span>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would add another reason for a harsh sentence:  This sort of behavior is ROUTINE<\/b> for police officers in the United States, and thus the sentence needed to be severe in order to provide deterrence to other malefactors on police forces throughout the country.<\/p>\n

Still, I expect him to be out into home confinement or some-such within 2 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd, and tried to do the same with many of the people he encountered, (in addition to being a tax cheat) was sentenced to 22\u00bd for murdering George Floyd. It’s nice that he got a sentence commensurate with his actions, which were callous and heinous, but I’m inclined to believe …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,969,972,1041,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-evil","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}