Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was sentenced to more than 20 years in jail for violating George Floyd’s civil rights.
In December, Chauvin, 46, pled guilty to the unrelated federal civil rights offenses.
He is already serving a 22-year state prison sentence for the death of Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, while on duty.
The two sentences will be served consecutively, and Chauvin will be sent to a federal prison.
However, he will almost definitely spend more time behind bars after the sentencing. His prison sentence will be followed by five years of supervised release.
Chauvin, a white guy, was convicted in Minnesota of murder and manslaughter after kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes.
The killing – captured on a bystander’s phone camera – sparked global outrage and a wave of demonstrations against racial injustice and police use of force.
The federal charges against Chauvin included two counts for depriving Mr Floyd of his rights by kneeling on his neck as he was in handcuffs, and by failing to provide medical care during the May 2020 arrest.
As part of the plea agreement, Chauvin also pleaded guilty to violating the rights of a then-14-year-old boy during another arrest that took place in 2017.
According to the indictment, Chauvin held the boy by the throat, hit him in the head with a flashlight and held his knee on the boy’s neck and upper back while he was handcuffed and not resisting. Like Mr Floyd, the boy was black.
Prosecutors said that unreleased bodycam footage showed Chauvin kneeling on the boy’s back for 17 minutes while he cried out for his mother.
When Chauvin pleaded guilty, prosecutors asked that he serve his sentence concurrently with his murder sentence. He had been facing life in prison if we were to be convicted at a second criminal trial.
