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'''Derek Michael Chauvin''' (born March 19, 1976) is an American former police officer weighing about 140 pounds who participated in the restraint of the much larger, 230-pound former football player  [[George Floyd]] in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], on May 25, 2020. Floyd had taken a large amount of drugs which were detected during his subsequent [[autopsy]].  During an arrest made by Chauvin and three other officers, he purportedly knelt on Floyd's neck although footage shown at the trial indicated that his knee was actually on Floyd's shoulderblade,<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/04/05/derek-chauvin-defense-shows-video-clip-to-suggest-officer-knelt-on-george-floyds-shoulder-not-his-neck/</ref> for several minutes while Floyd was handcuffed.  At trial a medical "expert" for the prosecution presented a controversial theory of positional asphyxiation, claiming that was the cause of death despite the autopsy ruling that the cause of death was unknown.

'''Derek Michael Chauvin''' (born March 19, 1976) is an American former police officer weighing about 140 pounds who participated in the restraint of the much larger, 230-pound former football player  [[George Floyd]] in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], on May 25, 2020. Floyd had taken a large amount of drugs which were detected during his subsequent [[autopsy]].  During an arrest made by Chauvin and three other officers, he purportedly knelt on Floyd's neck although footage shown at the trial indicated that his knee was actually on Floyd's shoulderblade,<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/04/05/derek-chauvin-defense-shows-video-clip-to-suggest-officer-knelt-on-george-floyds-shoulder-not-his-neck/</ref> for several minutes while Floyd was handcuffed.  At trial a medical "expert" for the prosecution presented a controversial theory of positional asphyxiation, claiming that was the cause of death despite the autopsy ruling that the cause of death was unknown.