UPDATE 11:45 A.M. PST: Derek Chauvin has now been charged with murder.
The former MPD officer was taken into custody on Friday and within hours was officially charged with 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter for the death of George Floyd.
This news comes shortly after the shocking revelation the two men may have met before as they worked at the same nightclub, the El Nuevo Rodeo Club, for about a year in 2019 — Chauvin as an off-duty police officer, Floyd as security.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI are reportedly both still investigating…
The former Minneapolis police officer captured on video kneeling on George Floyd‘s neck has been arrested.
Derek Chauvin, who was fired by the Minneapolis Police Department on Monday along with three other officers involved in Floyd’s detainment, was taken into custody early Friday morning. As we’ve reported, Floyd died while in custody after viral video showed him struggling to breathe with Chauvin’s knee pressed into his neck for at least eight minutes.
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Chauvin’s arrest was first announced by Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington (pictured in the insert, above left, during the news conference on Friday morning), though it’s unclear at this point exactly what the charges are against the former officer.
Both the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been investigating the events and actions that led to Floyd’s death earlier this week.
According to KMSP political reporter Theo Keith, who was first to report the news of Chauvin’s arrest, not much more has been announced at this point (below):
Harrington says the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension told him minutes ago.
He would not say where Chauvin was arrested, or on what charges.
A news release is forthcoming.
— Theo Keith (@TheoKeith) May 29, 2020
Wow.
We’ll continue to update you as more unfolds in this developing story…
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