Derek Chauvin Was Sentenced to 22.5 Years. But America’s Law-Enforcement System Still Isn’t Set Up for Accountability
A Minneapolis judge on Friday sentenced former police officer Derek Chauvin, for the murder of George Floyd last May, to 22.5 years in prison—a rare event in the nation’s criminal justice system, and one that many will regard as the end of a gruesome chapter in the American story. "I begged for justice for my brother, some kind of accountability," Philonise Floyd, George Floyd's brother, said in a press conference after the sentence was passed.
