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Tuesday, June 1st:
*Initial Appearance Hearing (@ am CT ) - *Federal Grand Jury indicted & charged (5/7/21) Derek Michael Chauvin (44/now 45) for violated Floyd’s civil rights. Charged with violating Floyd's right to be free from unreasonable seizure, unreasonable force by a police officer & for failure to provide Floyd with medical care. Also indicted & charged (5/7/21) in a second indictment (stemming from the arrest & neck restraint of a 14-year-old boy in 2017) with Count 1 without legal justification held the teenager by the throat & struck the teenager multiple times in the head with a flashlight. Alleges that this offense included the use of a dangerous weapon-a flashlight & resulted in bodily injury to teenager. Count 2 charges that Chauvin held his knee on the neck & the upper back of teenager even after the teenager was lying prone, handcuffed & unresisting, also resulting in bodily injury.
5/7/21 Update: The three-count indictment names Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng & Tou Thao. Specifically, Chauvin, Thao & Kueng are charged with violating Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure & excessive force. All four officers are charged for their failure to provide Floyd with medical care. Chauvin was also charged in a second indictment, stemming from the arrest and neck restraint of a 14-year-old boy in 2017. In Chauvin's case, if the federal court uses second-degree murder as his underlying offense, he could face anywhere from 14 years to slightly more than 24 years, depending on whether he takes responsibility. Count One of the indictment alleges that on May 25, 2020, Chauvin held his left knee across Mr. Floyd’s neck & his right knee on Floyd’s back & arm, as Floyd lay on the ground, handcuffed & unresisting, & kept his knees on Mr. Floyd’s neck & body even after Mr. Floyd became unresponsive. The indictment alleges that Chauvin’s actions violated Mr. Floyd’s constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer & resulted in bodily injury to, and the death of, Mr. Floyd. Count Two of the indictment charges that Thao & Kueng willfully failed to intervene to stop Chauvin’s use of unreasonable force, resulting in bodily injury to, and the death of, Mr. Floyd. Finally, Count Three of the indictment alleges that all four defendants saw Mr. Floyd lying on the ground in clear need of medical care & willfully failed to aid him.
According to a police report from that 2017 encounter, Chauvin wrote that the teen resisted arrest & that after the teen, who he described as 6-foot-2 & about 240 pounds, was handcuffed, Chauvin "used body weight to pin" the boy to the floor. The boy was bleeding from the ear & needed two stitches. A separate, two-count indictment also charges Chauvin with willfully depriving a Minneapolis resident who was then fourteen-years-old of the constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 242. Count One of this indictment alleges that on Sept. 4, 2017, Chauvin, without legal justification, held the teenager by the throat & struck the teenager multiple times in the head with a flashlight. The indictment alleges that this offense included the use of a dangerous weapon—a flashlight—and resulted in bodily injury to the teenager. Count Two of the indictment charges that Chauvin held his knee on the neck & the upper back of the teenager even after the teenager was lying prone, handcuffed, and unresisting, also resulting in bodily injury. The charges announced today are separate from the Justice Dept’s civil pattern or practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis & thee Minneapolis Police Dept. that the Attorney General announced on April 21. The charges announced today are criminal, while the pattern or practice investigation is a civil investigation that will be conducted separately & independently from the criminal case, and will be handled by a different team of career staff from the Civil Rights Division & the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
6/1/21 Update: Initial appearance Tuesday (6/1/21) in federal court to face charges alleging he violated Floyd’s civil rights by pinning the Black man to the pavement with his knee. Chauvin is scheduled to appear in federal court via videoconference from Minnesota’s maximum-security prison in Oak Park Heights, where he’s being held as he awaits sentencing following his April conviction on murder and manslaughter charges.
*Charged (7/22/20) with 6 counts of aiding & abetting taxes-false or fraudulent returns-filed with commissioner & 3 counts of aiding & abetting taxes-failure to file return, report, document. Omnibus hearing on 6/30/21.
Floyd murder – sentencing on 6/25/21.
*Initial Appearance Hearing (@ am CT ) - *Federal Grand Jury indicted & charged (5/7/21) Derek Michael Chauvin (44/now 45) for violated Floyd’s civil rights. Charged with violating Floyd's right to be free from unreasonable seizure, unreasonable force by a police officer & for failure to provide Floyd with medical care. Also indicted & charged (5/7/21) in a second indictment (stemming from the arrest & neck restraint of a 14-year-old boy in 2017) with Count 1 without legal justification held the teenager by the throat & struck the teenager multiple times in the head with a flashlight. Alleges that this offense included the use of a dangerous weapon-a flashlight & resulted in bodily injury to teenager. Count 2 charges that Chauvin held his knee on the neck & the upper back of teenager even after the teenager was lying prone, handcuffed & unresisting, also resulting in bodily injury.
5/7/21 Update: The three-count indictment names Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng & Tou Thao. Specifically, Chauvin, Thao & Kueng are charged with violating Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure & excessive force. All four officers are charged for their failure to provide Floyd with medical care. Chauvin was also charged in a second indictment, stemming from the arrest and neck restraint of a 14-year-old boy in 2017. In Chauvin's case, if the federal court uses second-degree murder as his underlying offense, he could face anywhere from 14 years to slightly more than 24 years, depending on whether he takes responsibility. Count One of the indictment alleges that on May 25, 2020, Chauvin held his left knee across Mr. Floyd’s neck & his right knee on Floyd’s back & arm, as Floyd lay on the ground, handcuffed & unresisting, & kept his knees on Mr. Floyd’s neck & body even after Mr. Floyd became unresponsive. The indictment alleges that Chauvin’s actions violated Mr. Floyd’s constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer & resulted in bodily injury to, and the death of, Mr. Floyd. Count Two of the indictment charges that Thao & Kueng willfully failed to intervene to stop Chauvin’s use of unreasonable force, resulting in bodily injury to, and the death of, Mr. Floyd. Finally, Count Three of the indictment alleges that all four defendants saw Mr. Floyd lying on the ground in clear need of medical care & willfully failed to aid him.
According to a police report from that 2017 encounter, Chauvin wrote that the teen resisted arrest & that after the teen, who he described as 6-foot-2 & about 240 pounds, was handcuffed, Chauvin "used body weight to pin" the boy to the floor. The boy was bleeding from the ear & needed two stitches. A separate, two-count indictment also charges Chauvin with willfully depriving a Minneapolis resident who was then fourteen-years-old of the constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a police officer, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 242. Count One of this indictment alleges that on Sept. 4, 2017, Chauvin, without legal justification, held the teenager by the throat & struck the teenager multiple times in the head with a flashlight. The indictment alleges that this offense included the use of a dangerous weapon—a flashlight—and resulted in bodily injury to the teenager. Count Two of the indictment charges that Chauvin held his knee on the neck & the upper back of the teenager even after the teenager was lying prone, handcuffed, and unresisting, also resulting in bodily injury. The charges announced today are separate from the Justice Dept’s civil pattern or practice investigation into the City of Minneapolis & thee Minneapolis Police Dept. that the Attorney General announced on April 21. The charges announced today are criminal, while the pattern or practice investigation is a civil investigation that will be conducted separately & independently from the criminal case, and will be handled by a different team of career staff from the Civil Rights Division & the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
6/1/21 Update: Initial appearance Tuesday (6/1/21) in federal court to face charges alleging he violated Floyd’s civil rights by pinning the Black man to the pavement with his knee. Chauvin is scheduled to appear in federal court via videoconference from Minnesota’s maximum-security prison in Oak Park Heights, where he’s being held as he awaits sentencing following his April conviction on murder and manslaughter charges.
*Charged (7/22/20) with 6 counts of aiding & abetting taxes-false or fraudulent returns-filed with commissioner & 3 counts of aiding & abetting taxes-failure to file return, report, document. Omnibus hearing on 6/30/21.
Floyd murder – sentencing on 6/25/21.
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