After a plea agreement, the former white police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Thursday by the American federal justice to 21 years in prison for "violation of the civil rights" of George Floyd, the black forties whom he had suffocated under his knee in 2020. The white policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced Thursday, July 7 to 21 years in prison by the federal justice of the United States for having asphyxiated the African-American George Floyd with his knee. The 46-year-old former agent had previously been sentenced for murder to 22 and a half years in prison by the Minnesota state court , but appealed the sentence. The federal sentence for "violation of civil rights" of the black forties is, for its part, final since it results from a plea agreement. It can be served at the same time as the other sentence, said Judge Paul Magnuson of the Saint-Paul court, giving him credit for the seven months already spent in detention. "I don't know why you did that