Joe Biden Says Derek Chauvin’s Sentence Seems “Appropriate”

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President Joe Biden told reporters that the 22.5-year sentence handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was “appropriate.”“I don’t know all the circumstances that were considered but it seems to me, that under the guidelines, that seems to be appropriate,” Biden said in the Oval Office, where he was meeting with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani.Chauvin was sentenced on Friday for the murder of George Floyd.When the jury in Chauvin’s case handed down its verdict in April, Biden called it a “step forward.”“Let’s also be clear that such a verdict is also much too rare,” Biden said then. “For so many people, it seems like it took a unique and extraordinary convergence of factors: a brave young woman with a smartphone

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