Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights as well as violating the rights of a 14-year-old boy in a different case from 2017, the Associated Press reports.
Chauvin received a 22½ year sentence for the murder of Floyd, which means he will be eligible for parole in 15 years. The federal charges–for kneeling on Floyd after he was handcuffed and for failing to seek medical care for Floyd–could add as much as 300 months to his sentence, which can be run consecutively, after his murder sentence.
As part of the plea deal, Chauvin also acknowledged violating the rights of a 14-year-old boy in a 2017 incident where he held the boy 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.