The killer police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck until he suffocated has been given a new 21-year prison sentence.
Derek Chauvin is already serving 22 years in jail for the murder and manslaughter of the unarmed dad.
But the disgraced ex-law enforcer, 46, has been given a concurrent federal term for violating Mr Floyd's civil rights.
Chauvin, a white man, was filmed pinning the black 46-year-old to the pavement outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020.
When the resultant video was shared online it caused mass outrage, and sparked protests across the US and the world against police brutality and racism.
Chauvin pleaded guilty to the federal charges in December, following a trial in state court earlier last year.
US District Judge Paul Magnuson told Chauvin in St Paul, Minnesota, yesterday he was "simply wrong" and offensive", according to notes shared with media outlets from a reporter in one of the courtroom's limited seats.
Mr Magnuson said: "I really don't know why you did what you did.
"To put your knee on a person's neck until they expired is simply wrong, and thus you need to be substantially punished."
Chauvin's federal sentence is due to be followed by five years of supervised release.
The ex-police officer admitted he violated Mr Floyd's right not to face "unreasonable seizure" by kneeling on the handcuffed man's neck for more than 9 minutes.
The judge also ordered Chauvin to pay restitution in an amount yet to be determined.
Chauvin's decision to plead guilty averted a second criminal trial for him, but almost certainly means he will spend more time behind bars.
As part of his agreement with prosecutors last year, Chauvin also pleaded guilty to violating the rights of John Pope Jr., who was 14 years old when Chauvin repeatedly hit his head with a flashlight before kneeling on his neck in a violent arrest several years before Mr Floyd's murder.
"I was treated as if I was not a human being at the hands of Derek Chauvin," Pope told the court, according to the reporter's notes.
Philonise Floyd also addressed the court before sentencing, saying the dying screams of his brother George Floyd haunted his nightmares.
He asked the judge to sentence Chauvin to life in prison.
Chauvin spoke to say he recognised the court's difficulty in handling a case in a "politically charged environment," and that he wished for Pope and Mr Floyd's children to have productive and rewarding lives.
Chauvin did not offer an apology, local media reported.
His mother also spoke to the court, saying her son had been wrongly maligned as racist.
In his state trial last year, Chauvin was convicted of intentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
People sentenced to prison for felonies in Minnesota are usually released on parole after serving two-thirds of their sentence.
Chauvin's guilty plea to the civil rights charges came as part of an agreement with prosecutors under which he would be due to face between 20 and 25 years in federal prison.
In that agreement, he admitted for the first time that he was to blame for Floyd's death.
Federal prosecutors had asked Magnuson to sentence Chauvin to 25 years.
Mr Floyd could be seen in videos pleading for his life before falling still on the road beneath Chauvin's knee.
Chauvin was helping three fellow officers to arrest Floyd in May 2020 on suspicion that Floyd had used a fake $20 bill when buying cigarettes.
Those three - Tou Thao, J. Alexander Keung and Thomas Lane - were found guilty in federal court in February of violating Floyd's rights.
They have not yet been given a sentencing date.
A medical examiner determined that the police restraint stopped Mr Floyd from being able to breathe.
