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Derek Michael Chauvin (/ ˈ ʃ oʊ v ən / SHOH-vən; born March 19, 1976) is an American former police officer who murdered George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Police misconduct is inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. Types of misconduct include among others: sexual offences, coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence, spoliation of evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality, police corruption, racial ...
A police officer has been jailed for illegally accessing and passing sensitive information from police computer systems to her convicted criminal boyfriend. ... admitted one offence of misconduct ...
A former West Mercia Police officer has been jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty to misconduct in a public office. Former PC Nicholas Peacock, 40, engaged in a sexual relationship with a ...
A police officer who was “infatuated” with her convicted criminal boyfriend has been jailed for sharing sensitive information with him. ... pleaded guilty to one count of misconduct in public ...
State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin was an American criminal case in the District Court of Minnesota in 2021. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was tried and convicted for the murder of George Floyd, which occurred during an arrest on May 25, 2020, and led to global protests over racial injustice and police brutality.
West Allis police officer Paul Hartmann was given an 18-month probation sentence after pleading guilty to keeping money seized during an arrest.
In criminal law, police perjury, sometimes euphemistically called "testilying", [1] [2] is the act of a police officer knowingly giving false testimony.It is typically used in a criminal trial to "make the case" against defendants believed by the police to be guilty when irregularities during the suspects' arrest or search threaten to result in their acquittal.