Derek Chauvin
American murderer and former police officer
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| 2025 | Rumors emerged of a possible presidential pardon for Chauvin. |
| January 2025 | The lawsuit by the former City of Minneapolis employee concluded with a $600,000 settlement from the city. |
| January 2025 | The lawsuit from the 2024 incident concluded with the city paying a $600,000 settlement fee. |
| December 2024 | U.S. District Court accepts Chauvin's demand to have Floyd's tissue remains retested to investigate alternative causes of death. |
| August 20 2024 | Transferred to FCI Big Spring |
| May 2024 | A former City of Minneapolis employee filed a lawsuit against the city, accusing Chauvin of throwing her to the ground during a January 2020 drunk driving arrest and restraining her with a knee. |
| 2023 | City of Minneapolis agreed to pay nearly $9 million to settle lawsuits by Zoya Code and John Pope Jr., who claimed Chauvin pressed his knee into their necks in 2017. |
| November 2023 | Filed a motion in federal court attempting to vacate his guilty plea |
| November 24 2023 | Derek Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by another inmate, John Turscak, in the law library of FCI Tucson prison at approximately 12:30 p.m. He suffered serious bodily injury and was taken to the hospital for treatment. The attack was reportedly motivated by Chauvin's high-profile status and symbolic connections to the Black Lives Matter movement. |
| November 20 2023 | The United States Supreme Court declined to hear Chauvin's appeal, leaving the state court rulings and his conviction in place. |
| November 16 2023 | Chauvin gave an interview from prison for a documentary released by Alpha News, where he claimed the trial was a 'sham'. |
| July 2023 | The Minnesota Supreme Court denied Chauvin's request to review his case. |
| May 2023 | Chauvin's ex-wife was sentenced to twenty days in prison for tax-evasion charges. |
| April 2023 | A three-judge panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a 50-page decision affirming Chauvin's original conviction. |
| March 17 2023 | Chauvin pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges and was sentenced to 13 months in prison, to be served concurrently with his existing murder sentence. |
| November 24 2022 | Stabbed by another inmate at FCI Tucson |
| August 24 2022 | Transferred from Oak Park Heights state correctional facility to FCI Tucson, a medium-security federal prison in Arizona. |
| July 7 2022 | Chauvin is sentenced to 21 years in prison on federal civil rights charges related to George Floyd and the 14-year-old boy. |
| May 4 2022 | Federal judge accepts Chauvin's plea deal, which could result in a 20-25 year federal prison sentence to be served concurrently with his state sentence. |
| April 2022 | Derek Chauvin appealed his second-degree murder conviction to the Minnesota Court of Appeals, requesting a reversal of his conviction and a new trial in a different venue, claiming jury intimidation by pre-trial publicity. |
| January 21 2022 | Pre-trial hearing was scheduled for the tax-evasion case. |
| December 15 2021 | Chauvin pleads guilty to federal civil rights charges for violating the constitutional rights of George Floyd and the 14-year-old boy, admitting to using unreasonable force and deliberate indifference to serious medical needs. |
| September 16 2021 | Chauvin pleads not guilty to federal charges related to the 2017 incident involving the 14-year-old boy. |
| September 8 2021 | Chauvin first appeared in Washington County District Court for his tax-evasion case (case number 82-CR-20-2813). |
| June 25 2021 | Sentenced to prison for George Floyd's murder, with credit for 199 days time served |
| May 12 2021 | Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill allowed prosecution to seek a greater prison sentence after finding Chauvin treated George Floyd with 'particular cruelty'. |
| May 7 2021 | U.S. Department of Justice indicts Chauvin and three co-officers for constitutional civil rights violations related to George Floyd's murder, and separately indicts Chauvin for violating the civil rights of the 14-year-old boy from the 2017 incident. |
| April 20 2021 | Chauvin was found guilty by a jury of six white people and six people of color on three counts: unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. He became the first white Minnesotan police officer convicted of murdering a Black person. |
| April 20 2021 | Following the conviction, Judge Cahill revoked Chauvin's bail, and he was taken back into police custody. |
| April 20 2021 | Convicted on all charges (unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter) for George Floyd's murder |
| March 11 2021 | Judge Cahill reinstated the third-degree murder charge against Chauvin. |
| March 8 2021 | Derek Chauvin's trial for the murder of George Floyd began at the Hennepin County Government Center, marking the first time a Minnesota judge authorized cameras to show a full criminal trial. |
| February 2021 | Divorce between Derek Chauvin and his ex-wife was finalized. |
| February 2021 | U.S. Department of Justice convenes a grand jury to investigate Chauvin's civil rights violations, including the 2017 incident involving a 14-year-old boy and the 2020 incident involving George Floyd. |
| February 2021 | The group of correctional officers pursued legal action and filed discrimination charges with the state Department of Human Rights, alleging racial discrimination during Chauvin's detention. |
| January 13 2021 | Judge Cahill reversed his previous ruling and decided Chauvin would be tried separately from the other three officers. |
| November 5 2020 | Judge Cahill initially ruled that Chauvin and three other charged officers would be tried together in Hennepin County. |
| October 22 2020 | Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill dismissed the third-degree murder charge against Chauvin, while denying his motion to dismiss other murder charges. |
| October 7 2020 | Derek Chauvin was released on conditional bail after posting a $1 million bond. |
| July 22 2020 | Derek Chauvin and his wife Kellie were charged with nine counts of felony tax evasion in Washington County, Minnesota. The charges covered fraudulent state income tax returns from 2014 to 2019, alleging under-reporting of joint income by $464,433, including over $95,000 from Chauvin's security work. |
| June 2020 | Eight correctional officers filed a discrimination complaint against their supervisors with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights regarding Chauvin's treatment at the jail. |
| June 23 2020 | Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo publicly stated that Chauvin had been trained in the dangers of positional asphyxiation and characterized Floyd's death as murder, distancing the police department from Chauvin's actions. |
| June 9 2020 | A potential plea deal between prosecutors and Derek Chauvin was revealed to have fallen apart. The proposed agreement would have included Chauvin pleading guilty to third-degree murder and accepting a ten-year prison sentence, but was rejected by US Attorney General William Barr due to concerns about public perception of leniency. |
| June 3 2020 | Attorney General Keith Ellison amended the charges against Chauvin to include unintentional second-degree murder. Bail was set at $1.25 million for Chauvin, while the three other officers were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder with bail set at $1 million. |
| May 31 2020 | Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison took over the case at the request of Governor Tim Walz, signaling an escalation in the legal proceedings against Chauvin. |
| May 29 2020 | Derek Chauvin was arrested and booked at Ramsey County's Adult Detention Center in Saint Paul. |
| May 29 2020 | Chauvin is arrested in connection with George Floyd's murder |
| May 28 2020 | State and federal prosecutors held a press conference at a regional FBI office in Brooklyn Center to discuss the case against the officers involved in George Floyd's murder, but needed more time to review the case. |
| May 26 2020 | Chauvin is dismissed from the Minneapolis Police Department |
| May 25 2020 | Chauvin kneels on George Floyd's neck for approximately nine minutes during an arrest, leading to Floyd's death |
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