The Hennepin county attorney said Derek Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.

BREAKING: Derek Chauvin, one of four former officers fired for involvement in George Floyd’s death, has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announces.

When asked why the other three fired police officers had not yet been arrested, Freeman said, “We felt it appropriate to focus on the most dangerous perpetrator.” He later said he anticipated charges to be filed against them, but he did not get into details.

Freeman noted Chauvin was arrested less than four days after George Floyd’s death.

“That’s extraordinary,” said Freeman, who has been criticized for not arresting Chauvin more quickly.

“As of right now, we have that,” Freeman said.

Joe Biden called for justice in the death of George Floyd and warned that silence in the wake of his death amounted to complicity.

None of us any longer can hear the words ‘I can’t breathe’ and do nothing,“ Joe Biden says in statement in which he says he’s spoken with George Floyd’s family.

“We need justice for George Floyd,” Biden said?

Senator Kamala Harris said the other three police officers who were fired over George Floyd’s death must also be brought to justice.

The California senator said of the arrest of Derek Chauvin, “A start, but every single officer involved must be held accountable for George Floyd’s murder.”.

A start, but every single officer involved must be held accountable for George Floyd’s murder.

Senator Amy Klobuchar confirmed Derek Chauvin has been arrested in connection to the death of George Floyd and is in the custody of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Police officer Derek Chauvin has been arrested and is in custody for the murder of George Floyd.

The Minnesota senator called Chauvin’s arrest “the first step towards justice.” Klobuchar has been criticized for not prosecuting police officers involved in fatal encounters while she was serving as Hennepin county attorney.

In 2006, Chauvin was one of several officers involved in the shooting death of a man who stabbed others before turning on the police.

Although Klobuchar was the Hennepin county attorney at the time of an October 2006 police shooting involving Chauvin, she did not prosecute and instead the case went to a grand jury that declined to charge the officers with wrongdoing in 2008.

In an interview with MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell this afternoon, Klobuchar said it was “absolutely false” she declined to prosecute Chauvin.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been identified as the man who put his knee on George Floyd’s neck, has been arrested in connection to Floyd’s death.

Harrington did not offer any information about the specific charges filed against Chauvin, and it’s unclear whether the three other officers who were also fired after Floyd’s death will be arrested

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell released a statement condemning violence amid the protests and demanding structural change to avoid more deaths like George Floyd’s

“The killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, George Floyd in Minneapolis, and Breonna Taylor in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky have shaken our nation,” McConnell said

The two lawyers held a virtual press conference this morning with representatives of three families who recently lost their loved ones - George Floyd in Minnesota, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia

“We know there are, on average, 1,000 police officer involved shootings a year

The two lawyers called for a congressional hearing and the creation of a national task force to craft bipartisan legislation aimed at “ending racial violence and increasing police accountability” in the US

He said Breonna Taylor, an EMT, was killed for “sleeping while black in the sanctity of her own apartment”, after police shot wildly during a plain-clothes raid on her address in March; Ahmaud Arbery was cut down for “jogging while black” and George Floyd died “just trying to breathe while black”