Children saw George Floyd's murder — but judge didn't consider that in Chauvin sentencing [nbcnews.com]

Gail Kennedy 7/7/214:00 AM

By Janelle Griffith, NBC News, July 2, 2021

When Resmaa Menakem heard a Minnesota judge sentence Derek Chauvin to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, he was angry.

"My first thought was, 'Here we go again, this is the same old bull---- couched as objectivism, couched as law,'" said Menakem, an author and a clinical social worker who specializes in racialized trauma.

Although the sentence is one of the longest prison terms ever imposed on a U.S. police officer in the killing of a Black person, it fell short of the 30 years prosecutors had requested.

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