Biden’s DOJ Had ‘Backup Plan’ To Immediately Arrest Derek Chauvin if He Was Acquitted: Report

The Justice Department reportedly had a contingency plan to arrest former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin at the Minneapolis courthouse and charge him with civil-rights violations if he was found not guilty of murder in the death of 👤George Floyd, or if the case ended in a mistrial.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, federal investigators had been building a police brutality case for months against Chauvin and the three other former Minneapolis police officers charged in connection with Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020.

Reportedly, under the contingency plan, the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office would have filed a criminal complaint to charge Chauvin, so he could be immediately arrested, and then asked a grand jury for an indictment.

The “backup plan” was not needed because the state jury found Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter on April 20.

Now that the murder trial is over, the DOJ is purportedly moving forward with its case.

The federal prosecutors will ask a grand jury to indict Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao on civil rights violations, an anonymous source told the Star Tribune.

The grand jury, made up of a group of 23 citizens, reportedly met in secret last year to hear the federal authorities’ evidence and decide if there was probable cause to issue charges.