Chauvin to face charge of civil rights violation in 2017 arrest
Al Jazeera
Former Minneapolis police officer, convicted of murder in death of George Floyd, used a similar neck restraint on 14-year-old boy.
A former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd is scheduled to appear before a United States judge to answer a charge he violated the civil rights of a Black teenager in a 2017 case that involved a restraint similar to the one used on Floyd.
At Thursday’s arraignment hearing – to be held remotely via videoconference – Chauvin was presented with the charges against him and pleaded “not guilty”.
Court documents allege Chauvin used unreasonable force on the boy – then 14 years old – when he held the teen 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 prone, handcuffed and not resisting.
