Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is expected to plead guilty to violating Floyd‘s civil rights, according to a court filing added to the case docket Monday. Chauvin, who previously pleaded not guilty to the counts, will appear for a change of plea hearing on Wednesday morning in St. Paul.
Chauvin, along with the three other officers involved in Floyd’s death– J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao— were indicted by a grand jury in May for depriving Floyd of his constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force when they saw him on the ground “in clear need” of medical attention but “willfully failed to aid Floyd, thereby acting with deliberate indifference to a substantial risk of harm.”
Kueng, Lane and Thao previously pleaded not guilty to the charges and were set to stand alongside Chauvin at the trial. There’s no indication that the three other former officers will be changing their plea.
The three officers also face state charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter for not providing Floyd medical attention. That trial is scheduled to begin in March.
