United States prosecutors have demanded this Wednesday that a judge sentence Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer responsible for the death of George Floyd after nailing his knee in the neck for more than nine years, to 30 years in prison. minutes when he proceeded to his arrest. Prosecutors have maintained in the documents presented before the judge that in their opinion after the ruling, in which Chauvin was found guilty of the charges of murder and homicide, four aggravating factors are included, which would justify his request for conviction. Judge Peter Cahill said in May that the former agent had abused his position, treated Floyd with particular cruelty, acted in concert with other people and committed the crime in the presence of children, according to the network. The ruling allows Cahill to sentence Chauvin to more than 15 years in prison, the maximum penalty for second-degree murder, which is why prosecutors have noted that “the court must take the next step and ratify each of those aggravating factors “to impose the sentence. For his part, Chauvin’s attorney, Eric Nelson, has asked the court to” look beyond its conclusions, to his past, his absence of a criminal record, his willingness to be paroled, the unusual facts of the case, and his being a product of a ‘broken’ system. “Nelson has further argued that Chauvin” has been preliminarily diagnosed with heart problems. ” so he could die young, and has said that “aside from the long-term damage of a prison sentence on life expectancy, given his age, convicting an officer of a crime significantly increases the likelihood that it will be a target in prison.The twelve members of the popular jury pointed out in April that Chauvin is guilty of involuntary murder in the second degree, of murder in the third degree and of murder in the second degree for the death of Floyd in May 2020, a news received with jubilation by the dozens of protesters who were at the gates of the court. After that, the movement ‘Black Lives Matter’ affirmed that although “historically” the judicial system “has failed black families”, with the decision in the case of Chauvin “it has been produced a small step towards accountability “. For his part, US President Joe Biden said through his account on the social network Twitter that the verdict is” a step forward. ” “Although he will never be able to bring George Floyd back, this can be a big step forward in the march towards justice in the United States,” he said.
