What happened: Before the Judge passed the sentence against Derek Chauvin, his mother defended him by pleading leniency and telling the judge that her son was a good man and innocent. Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for murdering George Floyd while on duty by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes as he pleaded for air.
Backstory: Derek Chauvin, a US police officer, murdered George Floyd by kneeling down on his neck and suffocating Floyd to death on 25 May 2020. The video clip of the incident went viral, many calling out elements of police brutality, racism and white superiority embedded in American society. Chauvin is a white police officer while George Floyd was a black man. Click here for more from Propergaanda.