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and he's telling officer chauvin, i can't breathe. i'm dying. and mr. chauvin's response is uh-huh. and all this time we imagine what mr. floyd is going through. we're going to talk about particular cruelty and torture. we appreciate what he is going through. we know he's suffocating. we know that feeling of not being able to breathe enough. he is begging and pleading and being ignored. his concerns are being dismissed by somebody who has taken custody but not care. he kept him in that prone position for 9 1/2 minutes. and was suffocated. no other way to say it. that's particularly cruel. that is more cruel on a it up call second degree unintentional murder. significantly more. this is not a momentary gunshot, punch to the face. this is 9 1/2 minutes of cruelty to a man who was helpless and just begging for his life. there were children present, standing only a few feet from the oufrz. these children who were ages 17 and one child age 9. it is particularly cruel to commit a crime in front of a child. we heard about how it can affect a young brain and how long it can take. you have a

chauvin. i understand -- well, no, i can't understand what his family members and friends are going through. i can't. but it's certainly not enough for a departure to probation for a second-degree murder. we believe that these four aggravating factors that the finding of the court has made justifies an upward departure. because there are four of them, not standing alone, but in a sense, not overlapping, but coming together to show this is not the typical second-degree murder. this is egregious. and this justifies a double upward departure. from the top of the box, which is 180 months, we're asking the court to do a double departure, recognizing all four factors, to 360 months. this is the time for victims. right? this is the time for the loved ones of the victim and the community to have a say. again, i commend this family. i -- i commend all of the loved ones, the friends, the people that are involved in this case for tolerating and being gracious. none of this of course can bridge george flo

everyone knows, by derek chauvin. the facts of this case were proven beyond a reasonable doubt and three guilty verdicts will have been rendered. the situation has really affected me and my family. any family member that has went through this, we are part of the fraternity of families and it's not one of those fraternities that you enjoy. i just, over this last year and months, i actually talked to a few people and -- i wanted to know from the man himself, why? what were you thinking? what was going through your head? when you had your knee on my brother's neck? when you knew that he posed no threat anymore, he was handcuffed, why didn't he at least get up? why did you stay there? >> take your time. >> a month before my brother was murdered, i was on the phone with them. and we had a long conversation. and as i looked at the video of my niece, the last conversation me and my brother had was he wanted to have lay dates. he wanted to plan play dates with gianna and my daughter, and we started setting it up. that can't h

chauvin. i understand -- well, i can't understand what his family members and friends are going through. i can't. it's not enough for a departure to probation for a second-degree murder. we believe, your norhonor, thes four aggravating factors and findings the court made certainly justify an upward departure because there are four of them standing alone by in a sense not overlapping but coming together to show this is not the typical second-degree murder. this is egregious. this justifies a double upward departure. from the top of the box which is 180 months, we're asking the court to double departure recognizing all four factors to 360 months. as i mention, this is sentencing. this is the time for victims. this is the time for the loved ones of the victim and the community to have a say. again, i commend this family. i commend all of the loved ones, the friends, the people that are involved in this case for tolerating it and being gracious. none of this can bring george floyd back. that's ver

as you represented, chauvin's colleagues, other officers on the scene that assisted, helped chauvin to some degree, those officers are growing to be on trial in about one year facing charges for helping chauvin in this murder. i would expect those defense lawyers will try to work out a deal. minneapolis has suffered with this chauvin matter for some time now. i think all parties would be in their best interest to work out a deal and try to get this off the books so people can move on with their lives. >> neil: ted, do you think derek chauvin helped himself with his brief comments to the judge today? >> the comments were convoluted. i don't think that derek chauvin helped himself with the comments. primarily what the judge was looking for, neil, the world remorse. that's a legal term that we use. it means getting up, taking responsibility for your actions and saying that you're sorry for your actions. he showed no empathy whatsoever george floyd. i heard his mother. it's heart breaking when a mother has to give the testimony that he's mother gave, neil. the other side of this is she wil

chauvin. >> thank you. we are still, for all those attending, under somewhat modified covid restrictions so we're asking that everyone keep their masks on unless they are speaking. i'll ask for people who are speaking to come up to the lectern and use the microphone and remove your masks so we can hear you clearly and also to maintain the distances that we have set out in the courtroom. with that we'll proceed first with the state. mr. blackwell, you may proceed with victim input. >> your honor, we have four victim impact statements. we will with a 7-year-old daughter of george floyd, gianna floyd, who will present hers by video. >> what do you miss most about your daddy? >> well, i ask about him all the time. >> what do you miss most about him all the time? >> well, i ask about him all the time. and that's kind of it. >> yeah. well, when you ask about him, what are you asking about? >> well i was asking how did my dad get hurt. >> do you wish that he was still here with us? >> yeah. but he is. >> through h

chauvin accountable. it is not something that often happens when officers are convicted of killing people. i think that they have delivered some measure of accountability. there is a larger discussion going on in america with regards to race relations and racial justice which will continue long after today ends. >> is this the end of the case or do you think that derek chauvin can still appeal? is that what he seemed to be hinting at? >> he can still appeal but in addition, there are federal charges pending against derek chauvin by federal prosecutors. he is facing additional sentences for his actions that day with regards to george floyd beyond what happened today. i think that is probably what he was alluding to when he looked at the floyd family and said there will be other developments and i can't speak today. those federal sentences could be longer than even what we saw today. they can carry very lengthy sentences if he is convicted of those crimes. laura: this case sparked a huge, world by debate ab

prosecutors had asked for chauvin to serve at least 30 years, while chauvin's defense team argued that chauvin should get probation or a lighter sentence. chauvin, of course, was convicted on three charges in april, second degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. chauvin, of course, kneeled on the neck of george floyd for more than nine minutes while floyd laid handcuffed in the street. george floyd's tragic final moments were captured on cell phone video. cnn's sara sidner is live for us in minneapolis at the location of floyd's death. and, sara, what was the reaction there as the sentence was announced, 270 months, 22 and a half years? >> reporter: yeah. folks were chanting here george floyd's name. this is a group of people who have been out here for more than a year. you've got a whole host of folks who come out on a daily basis. they meet and talk with one another. but today the 22 and a half years for some wasn't enough. they wanted to see more of a maximum sentence up to 30 years. but it was enough for them to feel that at least there was

derek chauvin sostuvo la rodilla en el cuello de george floyd hasta que él murió. vos a pasar donde está todo esto ocurriendo afuera de la corte de minneapolis con rubén pereira que está ahí a s afues de la corte donde hay gran expectativa. cuéntanos cómo se ha recibido la senteia. >> aún hay mucha confusión con está sentencia de 270 meses que vendría siendo más de 20 años, hay algunas personas que están gritando todavía analizando lo que acaba de decir el la sentcia que acaba de decir, fue una tarde con mucho sentimiento escuchamos a la mamá de derek chauvin decir que su hijo es una rsona de buen corazón y que una sentencia para él es una sentencia para ella, por primera vez derek chauvin habló después de todo este juicio y que lo haría de forma breve puesto que tiene un juicio pendiente en una corte federal y él mandó sus condolencias a la familia de george floyd. vimos como familiares de george floyd dos hermanos y un sobrino hablaron lamentando esta tragedia y cómo les ha afectado la muerte de floyd. quien dio un testimonio bastante emoti

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he is telling officer chauvin, i can't breathe. i am dying. and mr. chauvin's response is "uh-huh." imagine what mr. floyd is going through. talk about particular cruelty and torture. he knows he is suffocating. we all know the feeling of not being able to breathe enough, and his complaints are being ignored, his concerns are being dismissed by someone who has taken custody of that care. he was kept in that prone position for nine and a half minutes and was suffocated. that is the only way to say it. that is particularly cruel. that is more cruel than a typical, second degree, unintentional murder. significantly more. this is not a one-shot punch to the face. this is nine and a half minutes of cruelty to a man who was helpless and just begging for his life. this court found there were children present, standing only a few feet from these officers. these children who were ages 17, and one child, age nine. why is that an aggravating factor? i think everybody can figure that out. it is particularly b to commit a crime in front of children. we have heard a lot of academia about the deve

and then, derek chauvin himself spoke. i want to give my condolences to the floyd family. _ the judge said his decision was not influenced by public opinion or meant to send any messages. the sentence for count one, the court commits you to the custody of corrections for a period of 270 months. it is rare for the justice system to punish a police officer and it took an extraordinary series of events to get to this moment. crucially, his murder was caught on camera in chilling detail. george floyd was pinned to the ground within knee of derek chauvin for nine minutes and 27 seconds and mr floyd cried out several times, i can't breathe. it traumatised the community and shocked the world, prompting the biggest protests since the civil rights era. do you need a minute? the trial was so compelling that the jury delivered a unanimous guilty verdict afterjust ten hours of deliberations. this outcome was in no way inevitable. still, this one sentence of this one disgraced police officer will only do so much to advance racial inequ

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joe chauvin side, call just one packed victim, derek chauvin's mother. who can proclaimed his innocence and asked for leniency on his behalf. chauvin himself also gave brief remarks in which he offered his condolences to the floyd family. he also said somewhat cryptically to the floyd family's, there's going to be other information in the future that would be of interest. and i hope things will give you some peace of mind. he directed that to the floyd family. i'm not sure what he meant. your judge top all of those statements into account before handing down what is the longest sentence of any police officer in modern minnesota history. one of the longest sentences ever handed down for police officer for use of force case on the line of duty. the case against chauvin was initially brought, minnesota's governor essentially took the job of prosecuting chauvin away from the county prosecutor, who would normally have overseen a case like this in the normal course of events. governor wallace took the case out of the traditional system that has led to so many

a jud hours denied chauvin's request for a new trial. today's sentencing hear is expected to begin within the next 30 minutes inside a minneapolis courtroom. floyd's death inspired international movements and gave rise to social reckoning around the united states. floyd's family hopes the trial will set a precedent. >> this morning the final chapter in a trial that has been watched around the world. a judge in minneapolis will sentence former police officer derek chauvin for the murder of george floyd. chauvin's defense team asking the judge for probation with time served. the prosecution wants 30 years in prison, the maximum sentence for the most serious is 40 years. for floyd's family, the sentencing marks the end of an emotional trial process. >> no sentence given is going to be truly justice for us. we can only just hope and pray that the maximum is given. >> reporter: before the judge hands down the sentence, he will hear several victim impact statements. chauvin will also have the opportunity to speak, but legal experts do not expe

chauvin treated mr. floyd without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings. >> the court commits you to the custody of the commissioner of corrections for a period of 270 months. >> reporter: former police officer derek chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in the murder of george floyd. chauvin was convicted in april of second-degree unintentional murder and taken back into custody today. the sentence includes a 10-year addition to the state sentencing guidelines but less time than the 30 years requested by prosecutors. >> this is the longest sentence that a police officer has ever been sentenced to in the history of the state of minnesota. but this should not be the exception when a black person is killed by brutality by police. it should be the norm. >> reporter: before the sentence came down, derek chauvin publicly spoke to the floyd family for the first time. >> i do want to give my condolences to the floyd family. there's going to be some other information in the future that woul

. >>> today former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin will learn his sentence in the murder of george floyd >>> which state is seeing the most infections and which county has only 13% vaccination rate. >>> teamsters delegates have voted overwhelmingly to organize hundreds of thousands of amazon drivers and warehouse workers. but does amazon want it? >>> and in the wake of bristney spears' plea to end her father's conservatorship. >>> i'm frances rivera >> and i'm phillip mena. a massive search and rescue continues in surfside, florida emergency crews frantically searching for more survivors from that high-rise collapse just look at those treacherous conditions a pool of water in a structure that is already unstable at least one person was killed and 99 are still unaccounted for. rescuers say they can hear banging sounds from beneath the rubble the president has approved an emergency disaster declaration to help with those rescue operations >> reporter: in south florida, the search continues for survivors in need of rescue. >> they are so motivated to bring people out safely and

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show me -- [no audio] >> more heinous than what derek chauvin has done. show me a crime where someone sits on the back of a human being and doesn't let him breathe for 9:29. show me -- [no audio] >> you took the time to provide input. i have reviewed the pre-sentence investigation and carefully all considered the facts of the case and the law, but my comments are going to be very brief, because most of it will be in writing. 22-page memorandum that will be attached onto the sentencing order. determining the appropriate sentence in any case and in this case there is a legal analysis that is applying the rule of law to the facts of an individual and specific case. and that is why as opposed to trying to be profound here on the record, i prefer you read the legal analysis that explains how i determined the sentence in this case. what the sentence is not based on is emotion or sympathy but at the same time, i want to acknowledge the deep and tremendous pain that all the families are feeling, especially the floyd family. you have our sympathies. and i acknowle

chauvin's side called just one impact victim, derek chauvin's mother who asked for leniency on his behalf. derek chauvin also gave brief remarks in which he offered his cop dole eppss to the floyd family. he also said cryptically to the floyd family, there will be information later that will be of interest and some things i think will give you some peace of mind. he directed that to the inside family. the july took those statements into account before handing down the sentence of any modern police officer, one of the longest sentences ever handed down for a police officer for a use of force case on the line of duty. the case of chauvin was initially brought, tim walls took the job of prosecuting chauvin from the prosecutor who would over seen this in normal events. he took the case out of the traditional system that has led to so many failed indictments not just in minnesota but around the country. he gave this case to minnesota's attorney general, keith ellison. he assembled the team of prosecutors that ultimately obtained not only a conviction here but now as of today, a historic senten

it is 270. 22.5 years for derek chauvin, over the killing of george floyd. accountability at last, say mr floyd's supporters and family. no—one is above the law and no—one beneath it. a police officer is not above the law and george floyd is certainly not beneath it. 159 people are still unaccounted for after the collapse of an apartment block near miami beach. us vice president kamala harris visits the southern us border for the first time since taking office — as a wave of cross—border migration continues. escalating backlash over the decision to ban uniformed police officers from taking part in this weekend's new york pride parade. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe ajudge in the us city of minneapolis, has sentenced the former police officer, derek chauvin, to 22.5 years injail, for the murder of george floyd. the 46—year—old african american died in may last year, after chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest. the lawyer for mr floyd's family says the sentence is "historic" and that it

chauvin had no regard human life. josh, this life. >> judge cahill also heard on video from floyd 7 year-old daughter gianna. if you could say anything to your daddy right now. what would it be. >> there. they asked me, i the >> chauvin's attorney eric nelson argued for probation that justice is blind. >> a lot is built on reason and common sense. and it can not be permitted to be assailed by public opinion. >> children's mother also spoke saying her son is a good man. >> derek. and what you should know. i've always believed in your innocence and i will never waver from that under minnesota law chauvin must serve 2 thirds of his sentence, which would be around 14 years was a feeling of frustration outside the courthouse today when they gave us those 3 guilty. they. >> got our hopes thinking that, you know, we're gonna get some type of accountability. but 22 years is. >> is nothing. he's got. >> another person that we spoke to today called it a slap in the face or has already been one march through the streets of downt

>> well, remember, derek chauvin's attorney wanted no time served. they wanted probation and the state actually asked for 30 years the maximum is actually 40 but i think it did warrant an upward sentencing guideline adjustment here. because of the aggravating factors. now, this judge proointed out n all four -- doing it in front of a child, having it happen in a group of people. but pointed to the particular cruelty that he spoke about. the idea -- and he actually called it the psychological abuse of what was going on. and the gratuitous infliction of harm. these are the words of judge cahill, in this case, who accompanied his ruling with that opinion. i look at this case, wolf, and i compare it to another case in minneapolis. officer mohamed noor who shot into the dark in an alleyway behind a home and killed, by shooting in the stomach, justine damon, who asked the cops to come to respond to what she thought was a sexual assault in an alleyway. this is an elevated second degree is the highest charge here and it's extension in an upward departure her

one way or another, 22 .5 years for derek chauvin -- 22.5 years for derek chauvin. 40 years would have been the maximum possible, 12 and a half the minimum possible. the prosecutor wanted 30 years. the prosecutor wanted 30 years and the defense wanted mr. shelving -- derek chauvin to walk free on probation, and walk free with days in prison already counted as a credit for him. jive -- judge cahill came down with 22.5 years, and the reason for this is the aggravating factors that he decided on a month ago. for example, derek chauvin showed specific cruelty when he was, for nine minutes and 45 seconds, on george floyd's neck. and he did it in the presence of minors, children. so there you have it -- 22.5 years. but here's the caveat. is this over? no, it is not. two reasons -- there is an appeal expected paid the defense as three months to file an appeal and appeal this judgment from judge cahill. reason number two is, there is a federal case pending against derek chauvin, and that is a civil rights case from temporal prosecutors -- from federal prosecutors. there is not even a court dat

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we saw chauvin with his knee on this man's neck. the thing about it was that it wasn't like he was letting off of the man's neck. seems like the long they are went on, he was forcing and pressing his knee further. there's a lot to unwrap here. no doubt about it. i think the judge is going to be as fair as he possibly can. but i do believe that he will sentence him north of 20 years- >> john: we'll see what happens. when you look back at that video from last year, you think how many ways that could have been treated differently. officer chauvin didn't seem interested in any other remedy than the one he applied this child george floyd. ted, great to talk to you. stand by. martha in the next few minutes will be coming up with the rest of this. the process, this procedure expected to last two hours if not longer. >> as we await the sentencing here, we want to get in other big news this hour. we're hours away from the president's first face to face with the afghan president. he's at the white house. the taliban has been gaining ground in

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chauvin was sentenced to 2.22 and a half years. the sentence marks a a closing chapter on the case has sparked global outrage and protests over racism and police brutality. joining us tonight live bay area criminal defense attorney paula canny. paula, thanks for joining the judge seems to have struck kind middle place in not the maximum, certainly not a light sentence, 22 and a half years. what do you what did you think of that. >> well, actually this is super interesting because the judge actually did a written opinion. rarely do judges right now there are 10 he sentenced erich show and a 270 months. the prosecution wanted a sense of threat being 106 siemens. the defense wanted the sentence of probation. so the the opinion is about a 22 page opinion it's very well reasoned. and the j udge found 2 aggravating factors. one that there was substantial cruelty imposed george floyd and to that derek chauvin abused a position of trust, police officer. he abused his position of trust so the judge in his written opinion gave a great explan

derek chauvin will learn his fate for the murder of george floyd. how the city of minneapolis is still dealing with the aftermath more than a year later. >>> airport breach. a driver crashes through a fence at los angeles international airport leading police on a airport leading police on a chase across two runways. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with breaking developments in that deadly condo collapse in florida. president biden issued an emergency declaration overnight freeing up more resources in the desperate search for survivors. surveillance video captured the moment when part of the building crumbled to the ground just over 24 hours ago. at least one person was killed. 99 others are unaccounted for. google images show the before and after. and you can see just how much of the property is no longer there. search efforts continued overnight as crews dig through the rubble in the hopes of finding survivors. and laura podesta is in surfside, florida. has there been any progress when

he said that chauvin abused his position. and he talked about the particular cruelty inflicted on george floyd. what judges look for is if a person as insight into their actions, if they would do something different, and if they express any remorse or empathy for the victim and there is none of that in this memo. and they said george floyd died a particularly slow death and he knew it was terrifying and he was begging, or saying this is a relatively quick death. they also say that derek chauvin did nothing wrong. he relied on his training and experience. and that if he knew he was committing a crime he would have stopped. when you're convicted they are saying i'm sorry, and showing insight into what is going on. so that was an opportunity for chauvin to demonstrate that he has some insight and that he is sorry about what happened to george floyd. he did not do that. that would have been a reason for judge cahill to give him a slight cut in theness. i think it is such a defiant memo. >> victim impact statements. we expect thre

chauvin is on the left side of your screen. the former police officer convicted in the killing of george floyd is about to find out how many years he will spend behind bars. we may hear from derek chauvin for the first time during this process and we'll watch that live throughout the course of this hour. that's where we find matt finn. today is a big day, matt. >> martha, derek chauvin is looking different. three members of george floyd's family have given impact statements. the first, george floyd's 7-year-old daughter. she says when she sees her dad again, she wants to play with him. she said every night george helped her brush her teeth. here's what shes will told the court today. >> if you can say anything to your daddy right now, what would it be? >> it would be i miss you and i love you. >> two of george floyd's brothers gave victim impact statements. the family doesn't want this to be a slip on the wrist. the second brother said he hasn't had a real night's sleep because he has night mares. he seas the floyd family has b

you can wish he sentenced chauvin to more. you can wish he sentenced chauvin to less. they wills you how he got there. i think it's important while we pause and reflect on this one case and one place and one verdict and one sentence and one defendant to understand how a careful and thoughtful judge does hi job. you may agree, you may disagree but you can see the path to the sentence. that's what e found so interesting about it. >> we will -- chuck said he read that on his phone. we'll have more time to dive into that. professor dyson i want to end with you in place where you and i started before the live events took over, and that's the family. his brothers, his cousins. every last one of them has almost an intuitive activism in them. every single one of them coupled their personal pain, their observations about the sentence today that the call for action and the one thing from politics that i know is most powerful, a thank you to the activists themselves. every one of them thanked the activists and called on them to press for passage of the george floyd police reform

chauvin rather than pursuing the mission, treated. in floyd without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings in which he certainly would have extended to a friend or neighbor. the prosecution, capping off an effort for more than a year in the making. >> a police officer is not above the law. and george floyd certainly is not beneath the law. >> during the sentencing hearing, the family expressed the impact george floyd's murder had on them including his 7-year-old daughter giana floyd. >> asked about him all the time. >> his brothers speaking directly to chauvin. >> why you getting up? why are you staying here? >> and making their plea to the judge. >> the maximum sentence possible. >> chauvin's mother spoke in his defense. never acknowledging the floyd family. instead -- >> derek, i want you to know that i've always believed in your innocence and i will never waiver from that. >> the court found the opposite and for the first time the 45-year-old former police officer addressed the floyd family. >> i want to give m

his brother, terrence, struggled to speak as he addressed derek chauvin directly. i wanted to know from the man himself, why? what were you thinking? what was going through your head? when you had your knee on my brother's neck. when you knew that he posed no threat any more? those are questions that remain unanswered, since derek chauvin chose not to testify in his defence during his trial. for the first time, the public got a more intimate look into his characterfrom his mother. it has been difficult for me to hear and red what the media, public and prosecution team believe derek to be an aggressive, heartless and uncaring person. i can tell you that is far from the truth. and then, derek chauvin himself spoke. i want to give my condolences to the floyd family. thejudge said his decision was not influenced by public opinion or meant to send any messages. the sentence fork out one, the court commits you to the custody of corrections for a period of 270 months. it is rare for the justice system to punish a police officer and it took an extraordinary series of event

like the conviction of derek chauvin two months ago, today's sentencing is not justice. but it is another moment of real accountability on the road to justice. it is difficult to see anyone lose their freedom. but seeing somebody lose their life through torture over 9:30 minutes is incomparebly worse. -- incomparably worse. those minutes and seconds are seared into the minds of people across the world who watched george floyd die. above all, the heroic people who stopped and bore witness to george floyd's suffering and torture and who came forward a year later to testify about what they saw. and to the floyd family members themselves and their counsel, we -- counsel, ben crump and tony romanucci, we say thank you. the lives of everyone who saw what happened to george floyd are forever changed. my hope for derek chauvin is that he uses his long sentence to reflect on the choices that he made on may 25, 2020. my hope is that he will find it within himself to acknowledge the impact of his choices on george floyd, his family, his fellow police officers, and the world. my hop

chauvin treated mr. floyd without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings. >> the court commits you to the customer of the commissioner of corrections for a period of 270 months. >> reporter: former police officer derek chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in the murder of george floyd. chauvin was convicted in april of second degree unintentional murder and taken back into custody today. the sentence includes a ten-year addition to the state sentencing guidelines, but less time than the 30 years requested by prosecutors. >> this is the longest sentence that a police officer has ever been sentenced to in the history of the state of minnesota, but this should not be the exception when a black person is killed by brutality by police, it should be the norm. >> reporter: before the sentence came down derek chauvin publicly spoke to the floyd family for the first time. >> i want to give my condolences to the floyd family. there's going to be some other information in the future that would

we didn't expect to hear much from derek chauvin. he has an appeal pending and these federal charges. his mother coming forward, not unusual for a family member to come forward and plead for mercy. what was unusual was that she didn't address the floyd family impact witness come forward and at least address the family, acknowledge their loss, express some condolences. doesn't have to state that her son did anything particularly, you know, that was critical, but her statement about her son being innocent and people all over the country writing her letters and expressing, you know, the same sentiment that he was innocent just seemed tone deaf and it was really offensive, i think, to the family, i think to the court and just an unusual statement. >> yeah. that's for sure. areva, we have to leave it there. always appreciate your insight. thank you. >> thanks, erica. >>> does he or doesn't he? president biden says he has a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. not everyone agrees. we'll discuss next. into this chip i invested in invesco qqq

his neck. 0fficials chauvin lent on —— knelt on his neck. officials in florida said the apartment block that collapsed near miami on thursday, leaving more than 150 people missing, was due to undergo extensive repairs this year. four people are confirmed dead and a major operation is continuing to search for survivors and more bodies. and here in the uk, borisjohnson has accepted an apology from his health secretary after pictures emerged of him kissing and embracing a colleague, in breach of covert guidance. matt hancock says he has let people down and is very sorry after the images show him. now it's time for a look back at the week in parliament.

julia: what is next for derek chauvin? we were hearing earlier he is likely to appeal this sentence, but he also faces a federal civil-rights trial. what other legal battles is he facing? >> he could face more charges on the federal level. the federal government will have to decide in light of this sentence if their resources are best spent in pursuing further charges against him. that is on the criminal side. on the civil side, there's the potential for remedies, for monetary damages that the victim and the victim's family can obtain. there are still legal obstacles facing george floyd, and he will fight almost certainly through appeal the verdict in this state criminal trial, which there's almost always appeals filed. he will have perhaps a colorable argument in terms of jury selection and the fact that the judge insisted on keeping the trial in that particular forum in that particular location and insisted on not sequestering the jury, even though during the trial, there were other disturbances, other instances of civil

chauvin, treated with mr. floyd without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings and which he would certainly extended to a friend or neighbor." the president of the united states, joe biden says this. >> i don't know all the circumstances. >> let us remember exactly what happened on may 25th, 2020. chauvin kneeling on george floyd's neck for an excruciating 9 minutes and 29 seconds. lily squeezing the life out of him while he begged for his mother and cried out "i can't breathe." his murder prompting people to the treats demanding justice. more than a year later, keith ellison calling on congress to act now. >> i call on leaders and members of congress to pass the best and strongest version of this bill can be passed and pass it now. looif lo lives are depending on it. >> republicans refused to debate for the people act to protect voting rights. doj announces it is suing georgia over its assault on the vote. making it a crime to give food or waters to voters waiting o online. i want to get

his brother, terrence, struggled to speak as he addressed derek chauvin directly. i wanted to know from the man himself, why? what were you thinking? what was going through your head? when you had your knee on my brother's neck. why — when you knew that he posed no threat any more? those are questions that remain unanswered, since derek chauvin chose not to testify in his defence during his trial. for the first time, the public got a more intimate look into his characterfrom his mother. it has been difficult for me to hear and read what the media, public and prosecution team believe derek to be an aggressive, heartless and uncaring person. i can tell you that is far from the truth. and then derek chauvin himself spoke. i want to give my condolences to the floyd family. thejudge said his decision was not influenced by public opinion or meant to send any messages. the sentence for count one, the court commits you to the custody of corrections for a period of 270 months. officer: hands up right now. it's rare for the justice system to punish a police officer, and it

chauvin will have to serve at least 2 thirds of a sentence. chauvin was convicted of second and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. chauvin pinned a handcuffed floyd with his knee to the street for 9 minutes and 29 seconds suffocating him my family and i have been given a life sentence. >> we would never be able to get back. >> when you see your daddy again one day. what do you want to do and you see em. >> air. >> very emotional testimony, especially by george floyd's daughter. as you heard there along with floyd's family. those gathered here at the head of the county courthouse for this sentence to be handed down disappointed as well. they do not believe justice was served either. we're live in minneapolis kron. 4 news. >> thank you, eric. meanwhile, back here in the bay reaction to the oakland city council voting in favor of cutting the police budget in the midst of a violent crime wave. that reaction is pouring in tonight forces even units getting perspectives from the police union and those 2 council members who voted agai

chauvin committed an atrocious crime, deserves severe punishment. stephanie, you and i have talked a lot about policing but we talked about mass incarceration. how the u.s. locks up more people than any other country, disproportionately people of color. racial justice means police must be held accountable but also means sentencing should be based on reason, not emotion. even in cases like this. under the sentencing guidelines, chauvin is looking at 10 to 15 years, because f aggravating factors, a judge can sentence them double that, up to 30. chauvin shouldn't be treated to a different standard or held above the law but has the same right to rational sentence that any other convicted person does. >> i remember after the verdict there was talk of motion for retrial. does that change the calculus of today's sentencing? where does all of that stand? >> chauvin claims jurors were biased, the case so high profile, they felt compelled to convict him. the judge will proceed today as if chauvin will lose that appeal. if chauvin wins and gets all three convi