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Chauvin is already serving a 22-and-a-half year sentence on state charges of murder and manslaughter.
Mr Floyd died on 25 May, 2020, after Chauvin pinned the black man to the ground with his knee on his neck.
A trio are charged with depriving George Floyd of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin suffocated him in May 2020.
J. Alexander Kueng, 28, is one of three former policemen facing federal charges of violating Floyd’s civil rights in the May 2020 murder.
Chauvin faces further jail time over the killing of the 46-year-old in 2020 which sparked protests across the world.
Chauvin has already been convicted of state murder and manslaughter charges.
Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.
Family lawyer Ben Crump said the family had got ‘some measure of accountability’.
US President Joe Biden said the jail sentence was “appropriate”.
The event was one of several planned across the US.
The men are charged with violating George Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure and excessive force.
Derek Chauvin was convicted last month of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
The department is already investigating whether the officers involved violated George Floyd’s civil rights.
US scholars analyse the guilty verdicts handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
Derek Chauvin was found guilty of Floyd’s murder yesterday.
Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump hailed the three guilty verdicts as a landmark victory for civil rights.
The verdict will be read in a Minneapolis courtroom at 9.30pm Irish time.
The 45-year-old former police officer is charged with the murder of George Floyd.
“I will invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege today,” Chauvin told the trial.
His evidence contradicts that given by a range of authorities in the trial.
The Boston attorney takes a look at the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.
The doctor who treated Floyd said a lack of oxygen was the most likely reason his heart had stopped beating.
Derek Chauvin is charged with murder and manslaughter.
Derek Chauvin is charged with murder and manslaughter.
Christopher Martin said that as he stood on the kerb a short time later watching Floyd’s arrest, he felt “disbelief — and guilt”.
Derek Chauvin is charged with unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.
Derek Chauvin, a veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department, faces murder and manslaughter charges.
Jury selection is proceeding even as a potential appellate court ruling could halt proceedings.
Floyd’s death from neck compression sparked protests against racial injustice in the US and abroad.
Derek Chauvin is in custody charged with second-degree murder over Mr Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
Judge Peter Cahill said he did not want the sensitive case to become a media circus with the US presidential election looming.
Members of the party knelt for eight minutes and 46 seconds before a sitting of Congress today.
George Floyd’s family described news of the new charges as a “bittersweet moment”.
The arrest of Derek Chauvin comes after three days of protests.