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Hundreds of people gathered outside the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday afternoon as former police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced for the death of Derek Chauvin.
There was an intense reaction from the crowd who chanted 'Black Lives Matter' while holding placards and waving flags.
Others could be heard shouting 'Bulls***!', unhappy at the 22½ year sentence, of which Chauvin is likely to serve two-thirds, or about 15 years.
Speaking outside the court, American civil rights leader Al Sharpton made a statement praising the sentencing while acknowledging a longer sentence would have also been appropriate.
'This verdict and this sentencing is the longest sentence we've seen, but it is not justice, because George Floyd is in a grave tonight, even though Chauvin will be in jail. So let us not feel that we're here to celebrate, because justice would have been George Floyd never have been killed. Justice would have been the maximum,' Sharpton began.
'We got more than we thought. Only because we have been disappointed so many times before. 22.5 years is longer than we've ever gotten, but shorter than what we should have gotten in the past. Let us remember, a man lost his life.
'This is not a prayer of celebration, it's a prayer to thank God for giving the strength of this family and those activists that stayed in the streets to make sure this court had to do
