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The management of the Oak Park Heights High Security Prison in Minnesota confirmed Wednesday that Derek Chauvin is no longer in custody. Court documents indicate that he has been released on bail of $ 1 million, which is equivalent to more than 9 million crowns.
According to the Reuters news agency, he was released on the condition that he does not work for the police and that he does not contact George Floyd’s family. You must also surrender all gun licenses.
All four police officers who were present during the brutal arrest in Minneapolis on May 25 have been released. They were all fired the next day. While Chauvin is charged with premeditated murder, the other three are charged with complicity. The trial is scheduled to begin in March next year.
I’m not breathing
It was Chauvin who pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for several minutes to make him stop breathing. Several passersby witnessed the incident, which took place on an open street, and the episode was filmed. The recordings show that he repeated that he was unable to breathe 21 times during detention. The 46-year-old man was pronounced dead the same day.
The assassination sparked large-scale demonstrations and riots in several American cities, and George Floyd has become an important symbol of the Black Life Matter movement not only in the United States but also in other parts of the world.
The other three former police officers had already been released on $ 750,000 bond.
Blame each other
They all had to appear in court four weeks ago, where they blamed each other.
Among other things, Chauvin claimed that Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose, and accused two of his former colleagues of not sufficiently checking Floyd’s condition while he was lying on the ground.
Prosecutors dismissed Chauvin’s claim of an overdose as “ridiculous.”
A judge is currently examining a request by the defendants that they be brought to court separately. The prosecution believes that the four must be brought to justice at the same time as it is justified that they worked closely during the arrest.
