{"id":48371,"date":"2021-04-20T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T21:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48371"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T21:38:21","slug":"derek-chauvin-found-guilty-on-all-counts-in-the-murder-of-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/04\/derek-chauvin-found-guilty-on-all-counts-in-the-murder-of-george-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chauvin found guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The jury has found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd last May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-chauvin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48372\" width=\"302\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-chauvin.jpg 992w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-chauvin-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/derek-chauvin-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chauvin, 45, was found guilty of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge asked each juror if the verdict was correct, thanked them&nbsp;and dismissed them. &#8220;I have to thank you, on behalf of the people of the state of Minnesota, for not only jury service, but heavy-duty jury service,&#8221; Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He revoked bail and told Chauvin to report back in eight weeks for sentencing. Chauvin, silent and&nbsp;wearing a gray suit and a light blue surgical mask, was handcuffed and taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Floyd&#8217;s brother Philonise Floyd was sitting with his head bowed and his hands folded in front of his face in prayer before the verdict was read. As each verdict&nbsp;was&nbsp;read, his hands increasingly shook and his head nodded up and down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury has found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd last May. Chauvin, 45, was found guilty of second- and third-degree&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}