Derek Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder, second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. ( Ramsey County Jail )MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Just four days after the death of George Floyd, and the day before former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was arrested, federal and state prosecutors were negotiating a possible plea deal with Chauvin, the FOX 9 Investigators have learned.
Sources familiar with the scuttled negotiations say it would have been a “universal deal” that would have included state murder charges as well as federal civil rights charges.