There will be Chauvin-related or Chauvin-adjacent news every few months or so for the remainder of his sentence. Gotta keep the martyrdom of St. Floyd in peoples’ consciences. Choosing to retire his badge number isn’t totally crazy I guess, but physically destroying his badge and writing a news story about it in the major newspaper for the area feels a little religious. But of course as we well know, Chauvin is one of the devils of a new civic religion.