President Biden on Friday said that the 22 1/2-year prison sentence handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd seemed “appropriate.”
“I don’t know all the circumstances that were considered but it seems to me, under the guidelines, that seems to be appropriate,” Biden told reporters on Friday afternoon when asked to react to the sentence during an Oval Office meeting with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani.
Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of Floyd, whose death in police custody in May 2020 sparked nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality.
Under Minnesota law, Chauvin will need to serve one-third of his sentence before he is eligible for supervised release.
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