Derek Chauvin has pled guilty in the federal civil rights case against him in a Wednesday morning hearing in the US District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though he previously pled not guilty to the charges, he submitted a written change of plea on Monday.
Sentencing will come at an unknown later date, and he's facing 25 years - according to prior statements by prosecutors - importantly, to be served concurrently with the April state sentence. He was previously handed 22 and-a-half years in prison for being found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, which sparked months of often violent protests across multiple major cities.