{"id":19710,"date":"2021-07-02T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19710"},"modified":"2021-07-02T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:42:37","slug":"editorial-derek-chauvin-sentenced-to-22-5-years-is-justice-really-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/07\/02\/editorial-derek-chauvin-sentenced-to-22-5-years-is-justice-really-served\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Derek Chauvin Sentenced To 22.5 Years. Is Justice Really Served?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, and because of his role as a public servant and the cruel inhumane nature of his crime was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. A few years less than the 30 years recommended by the prosecutors. Of course, this sentence was a sharp and historic departure from the norm. Normally, police are not charged for taking the life of a citizen. Several law enforcement officers have been charged for killing people but even fewer convicted.<br \/>\nWe have had our violent brush with police misconduct when Tulsa prosecutors charged former Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby for shooting unarmed Terence Crutcher in the back. <a href=\"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/2017\/05\/19\/betty-shelby-not-guilty-verdict-adds-fuel-to-the-fires-of-racism-and-discomfort-tulsa\/\">She was found not guilty as a few jurors said they simply could not do what they knew was right<\/a>.<br \/>\nChauvin\u2019s prison sentence is not the new norm, but it offers our nation \u2013 and Tulsa \u2013 a time to move forward with meaningful and substantial police reform that address\u00a0deep-rooted issues of race and violence affecting police interactions with people of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, and because of his role as a public servant and the cruel inhumane nature of his crime was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. A few years less than the 30 years recommended by the prosecutors. Of course, this sentence was a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-19710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19710"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}