Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro launched a petition Tuesday asking President Donald Trump to pardon former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is currently in prison for the May 2020 death of George Floyd, the New York Post reported.
Chauvin is serving simultaneous 21-year federal and a 22 1/2-year state sentences at low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas. A pardon by Trump would apply to the two federal convictions of violating Floyd’s civil rights, to which Chauvin pleaded guilty in July 2022.
Shapiro launched “Pardon Derek Chauvin” on The Daily Wire website, which he co-founded in 2015, urging Trump to “immediately” pardon Chauvin, whom Shapiro says was “unjustly convicted.”
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