{"id":574259,"date":"2021-06-25T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574259"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:20:25","slug":"president-biden-declares-derek-chauvins-prison-sentence-appropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-biden-declares-derek-chauvins-prison-sentence-appropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden Declares Derek Chauvin\u2019s Prison Sentence \u2018Appropriate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpresident-biden-declares-derek-chauvins-prison-sentence-appropriate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574259&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233528516-scaled-e1624379241888.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden declared former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s 22-year prison sentence \u201cappropriate\u201d as a punishment for the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Chauvin\u2019s sentence comes after more than a year of nationwide protests and riots in reaction to Floyd\u2019s death. Footage of the interaction shows Chauvin kneeling on Floyd\u2019s neck for roughly nine minutes, and a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/20\/derek-chauvin-found-guilty-murder-george-floyd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">convicted<\/a> Chauvin of three charges, including third degree murder, in April. Biden has since hosted the Floyd family at the White House, and told reporters Friday that he believes the sentence is \u201cappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know all the circumstances that were considered but it seems to me, under the guidelines, that seems to be appropriate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.6842105263158\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a> NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced in the murder of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>LIVE UPDATES: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dc1mB8vIdO\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dc1mB8vIdO<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YenTHgF8ce\">https:\/\/t.co\/YenTHgF8ce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1408492932424994817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior to Floyd\u2019s conviction, Biden said he was \u201cpraying\u201d for the \u201cright verdict,\u201d in a statement some critics viewed as calling for Chauvin\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m praying the verdict is the right verdict,\u201d Biden stated at the time. \u201cI think it\u2019s overwhelming, in my view. I wouldn\u2019t say that unless the jury was sequestered.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/29\/white-house-floyd-garner-police-reform-meeting-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Hosts Families Of George Floyd, Eric Garner In Police Reform Meeting)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden has vowed action on police reform, saying that the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is far from enough.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden has called for reforms, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/10\/biden-defund-police-democrats-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has also criticized<\/a>\u00a0the radical wing of his party that called for abolishing or defunding the police in the wake of Floyd\u2019s death last year. Leaked audio of a phone call with reform activists in December revealed him blaming Democratic losses in Congress partly on the anti-police rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we\u2019re talking about defunding the police. We\u2019re not. We\u2019re talking about holding them accountable,\u201d Biden said according to the audio.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/10\/minneapolis-police-department-increase-officers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Rising Violence Prompts Minneapolis City Officials To Consider Asking Nearby Officers For Support)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chauvin\u2019s appeals for a retrial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd\/2021\/06\/25\/1010290622\/derek-chauvin-new-trial-rejected-george-floyd-murder#:~:text=MINNEAPOLIS%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20A%20judge,right%20to%20a%20fair%20trial.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were denied<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden declared former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin\u2019s 22-year prison sentence \u201cappropriate\u201d as a punishment for the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.Chauvin\u2019s sentence comes after more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281387,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233528516-scaled-e1624379241888.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"President Biden Declares Derek Chauvin\u2019s Prison Sentence \u2018Appropriate\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233528516-scaled-e1624379241888.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"President Biden Declares Derek Chauvin\u2019s Prison Sentence \u2018Appropriate\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}