‘I hear the pain you’re feeling’, judge tells George Floyd’s family

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presided over the sentencing (Court TV via AP, Pool)

A US judge has told George Floyd’s family that “I acknowledge and hear the pain that you’re feeling” before sentencing a former Minneapolis police officer to 22-and-a-half years in prison for murder.

Judge Peter Cahill said he would issue a 22-page memorandum explaining his rationale for the sentence, saying it is “not the appropriate time” to be “profound or clever”.