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It has been announced that the third-degree murder charge of police officer Derek Chauvin, who caused his death while detaining black George Floyd in the USA, has been dropped.
The judge at the George Floyd case has dropped a third-degree murder charge against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd.
Chauvin still faces the higher charge of second-degree unintentional murder and a second-degree manslaughter charge in Floyd’s death on May 25, which sparked nationwide protests and a reckoning over race and policing this summer.
Chauvin, who was released on $1 million bond earlier this month, was seen in videos of the incident kneeling on Floyd’s neck for almost eight minutes, while the Black man told Chauvin and three other officers — Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng — that he couldn’t breathe.
