Former police officer Derek Chauvin will today learn his sentence for the murder of George Floyd.
Chauvin was convicted on three charges in April, the most serious being second-degree unintentional murder which arose after he knelt on the neck and back of Floyd for almost nine-and-a-half minutes while arresting him in Minneapolis.
That crime carries a potential 40-year prison sentence, though legal experts suggest a 20-30 year term is more likely.
Chauvin the first white police officer in Minnesota ever to be convicted of killing a black man.
