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DEREK CHAUVIN: The Quiet and Agitated Life of Derek Chauvin Before and After the Public Death of George Floyd. PRIME PUBLISHERS The U.S. police officer who killed George Floyd Four teenagers drove around Minneapolis playing a game of Nerf Gun Assassin on a May evening before graduation in 2013. One of them randomly fired an orange dart out the window. It was a stupid teenager move. What happened next was deadly serious: Two Minneapolis police officers pulled up, pointed their guns at the teenagers and shouted orders laced with expletives, two of them later recalled. Kristofer Bergh, then 17, said he kept telling himself not to move suddenly or give the police any reason to shoot him. The youth who had fired the dart was steered into their cruiser for what seemed like an hour, and the officers seized everyone's Nerf guns. One officer made a lasting impression; in fact, Bergh and another passenger said they would never forget him, nor what he said as he gave them back their guns. Most of you will be 18 by the end of the year, the officer said, before letting them go. That means you'll be old enough for 'big boy jail.' It was Derek Chauvin, the white police officer who, seven years later, would become known around the world for putting his knee on the neck of a Black man named George Floyd during an arrest and holding it there for more than eight minutes, until he no longer had a pulse. Since his April conviction, Chauvin has been held at the state's only maximum security prison in Oak Park Heights. According to the Minnesota Department of Corrections, Chauvin was taken back to that prison following the sentencing. He has been segregated from the general population for his own safety On the 25th of June, 2021, Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, whose dying gasps under Chauvin's knee led to the biggest outcry against racial injustice in the U.S. in generations. The punishment - which came after Chauvin broke his yearlong silence to offer condolences to the Floyd family and express hope that they eventually have some peace of mind - is one of the longest prison terms ever imposed on a U.S. police officer in the killing of a Black person. This book is an extensive life history of Derek Chauvin before and after the public death of George Floyd. CLICK ON THE BUY BUTTON TO GET YOUR COPY AND KNOW MORE!

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