President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was not aware of the effort to make him pardon Derek Chauvin, the white police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd.
“No, I haven't even heard about it yet,” Trump replied on Friday in the Oval Office.
Floyd's the death of May 2020 by Chauvin has implemented widespread protests and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement to the forefront of American politics.
Trump, in turn, went against during his search for re -election that year.
During one of Trump's most controversial moments in function, Black Lives Matter -demonstrators were tear -wit and H Street NW was released so that the Republican President could march to the church of Saint John and hold a Bible.
The historic yellow church just a stone's throw from the White House had set fire to the basement nursery during the demonstrations about Floyd's death by Chauvin.
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has publicly called on Trump to forgive the officer for the federal crimes associated with the death of Floyd -with doge leader Elon Musk who retweeted a Shapiro message and said: “Something to think about.”
Chuavin was convicted of the State accusations of unintended second-degree murder in April 2021, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter and the first white police officer was convicted of the death of a black victim in the history of Minnesota.
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was not aware of the effort to make him pardon Derek Chauvin, the white police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd. “No, I haven't even heard of it yet,” Trump replied
Derek Chuavin (Left) was convicted of state and federal charges on the dead of May 2020 of George Floyd (right), a black man of Minneapolis whose death produced the Black Lives Matter movement to the foreground of American politics
He was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison based on the statements of the state.
In June 2021, Chauvin was also convicted of federal charges, including the deprivation of Floyd of his civil rights. Chauvin was also convicted of depriving a 14-year-old of his civil rights in a separate case.
He received 21 years in prison for those charges – but serves the conditions at the same time.
If Trump decided to forgive Chauvin, the charges of the state and the penalty of 22.5 years would hold.
Yet it would be a symbolic victory against the Black Lives Matter movement.
Trump and his Maga movement have been broader against any movements in the direction of racial equality that would disadvantage the white majority.
Since the introduction in January, Trump has purified the federal government of dei diversity, equity and inclusion – programs that were aimed at diversifying the federal workforce.
The Trump government has also tried to undo some of the racial sensitive measures on the heels of Floyd's death.
President Donald Trump will hold a Bible on 1 June 2020 for the St. John's Church near the White House after it was damaged during the Black Lives Matter protests about the death of George Floyd. In contrast to Black Lives Matter, Trump called during his re -election offer that year
Such a step came from Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth to return the name of Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg.
In the aftermath of the killing of Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests that broke out, the army began to make movements to get rid of bases of names of confederated officers who had tried to retain slavery during the civil war.
Trump was so against this movement that in December 2020 he extended a veto for a military expenditure account, after he had lost his re -election race to President Joe Biden.
The congress rejected its veto and in 2023 Fort Bragg was renamed Fort Liberty.
Last month Hegseeth announced that Fort Bragg would return.
What Hegseeth was not advertised in public, but was included in the order that Fort Bragg would now be named after Roland L. Bragg, a heroic American hunter from the Second World War, and not the southern general credited for helping the South lost the civil war.
