(Reuters) – Bail was set at $1 million to $1.25 million for the white former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering a black man, George Floyd, by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes, CNN and other media reported on Monday.
The bail was set at the first court hearing for the former police officer, Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with second-degree murder in the May 25 death of Floyd.
(Reporting by Nathan Layne in Wilton, Connecticut; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
