https://archive.is/Dk9l4 - YAHOO! News
Derek Chauvin was indicted in the arrest of a 14-year-old whom prosecutors say he knelt on for 17 minutes and hit with a flashlight
Derek Chauvin faces a civil-rights charge in the violent arrest of a 14-year-old in 2017.
Prosecutors say Chauvin hit the boy with a flashlight and knelt on his back and neck for 17 minutes.
Chauvin is accused of using his authority as an officer to deprive the teen of his rights.
The charge was announced Friday, the same day Chauvin and three other former officers were indicted on additional civil-rights charges in the death of George Floyd.
Federal prosecutors accuse Chauvin of using his authority as an officer to deprive the Black teenager of his constitutionally protected civil rights. Chauvin held his knee to to the teen's upper back and neck for 17 minutes while he lay prone, was handcuffed, and was not resisting, according to the federal indictment.
Details of the 2017 incident came to light last month during Chauvin's murder trial.
In a court filing, the Minnesota state prosecutor Matthew Frank said videos from the arrest show Chauvin striking the teenager in the head and then pinning him to the ground with his knee for nearly 17 minutes, ignoring complaints that the teen couldn't breathe.
Chauvin and another officer had been called to the teen's home after his mother reported that her two children had assaulted her, according to the filing. The officers told the boy, who was lying on the floor, that he was under arrest, and then Chauvin struck him several times with a flashlight before putting him in the prone position.
Chauvin hit the boy with the flashlight, then grabbed his throat and hit him again in the head with it, according to the filing. The teen called out for his mother and for the officers to stop hurting him, the indictment said.
He bled from his left ear and later was hospitalized to get stitches, according to the filing.
Videos of the arrest first surfaced last year but did not lead to state charges.
The incident echoes Floyd's murder in May 2020. Floyd was also prone and handcuffed when Chauvin knelt on his back and neck for more than nine minutes while he pleaded for his life and said he couldn't breathe.
Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter in Floyd's death and is awaiting a June sentencing in that case.
Guys I've been saying he's a clown. He knew Floyd. The place they"worked " at was a front .
https://i.imgur.com/gDwPYpO.jpg
His neighbors didn't even know he was a cop.
https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1266142235914985472
They had him "training" three noobs?!?
Clown thru and thru
Yep, this whole thing was a facade, a false flag and now they're inserting 17 into EVERYTHING for the lolz. It's getting painfully obvious.
Your daily 17.
Pretty sure at this stage its been co-opted by the other side. It's TOO familiar now.
Too familiar to us, but not yet to normies.
Guilty!
Don't care about the facts of the case, he's guilty, cause if the mob of the perpetually offended, supported by the totally always honest media says a thing, it's gotta be true.
So a healthy person not on a drug combo didn't die in the same circumstances but even longer?
I know, it's a miracle. Perhaps the Prince of No Air's family should have queried why ol' George died after only 8 mins. Must have been some knee.
[they]'re gonna make damn sure this man NEVER sees the light of day from outside a prison, ever again.
This is why police can't do their jobs. ARRESTING SOMEONE IS DEPRIVING THEM OF RIGHTS... but it is in response to criminal behavior. Another half assed attack where he is the bad guy because he hit a kid and knelt on him, BUT WHAT DID THE KID DO TO WARRANT THE TREATMENT. What's the other side of the story that will come out and stop any outrage that they're hiding and mosrepresenting.