The white police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Thursday to more than 20 years in prison by the federal justice of the United States for having asphyxiated the African-American George Floyd with his knee in May 2020.

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The 46-year-old former agent had already been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison by the Minnesota state court, but he appealed the sentence.

The concurrent federal sentence is, for its part, final since it results from a plea agreement.