Derek Chauvin, the previous Minneapolis police officer convicted of the 2020 homicide of George Floyd, was stabbed and significantly injured in an Arizona jail Friday.
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an unidentified inmate on the Federal Correctional Establishment, Tucson was assaulted at 12:30 p.m. PST and that “life-saving measures” had been carried out on him earlier than he was transferred to a close-by hospital for additional therapy.
Chauvin, 47, was recognized because the attacked inmate by a supply who spoke to the Related Press on the situation of anonymity. He was transferred from a maximum-security Minnesota state jail in August 2022 to FCI Tucson, a medium-security facility with a spotty report on safety lapses and staffing shortages.
Chauvin is concurrently serving a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights and a 22½-year state sentence for second-degree homicide, after urgent his knee towards Floyd’s neck for 9½ minutes exterior a comfort retailer on Could 25, 2020, the place Floyd was being detained on suspicion of passing counterfeit forex. That set off nationwide protests towards racism in policing.
The stabbing confirmed Chauvin’s lawyer’s fears that the disgraced officer is likely to be a goal for retribution. No suspects have been recognized within the assault and no jail workers had been injured. Inmate visits had been suspended.
The assault comes just one week after the U.S. Supreme Court docket shot down Chauvin’s attraction of his homicide conviction. He additionally has claimed to have new proof that proves he didn’t trigger Floyd’s dying.
