Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd's killing, stabbed in prison, AP source says
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D erek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd , was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The attack happened at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a medium-security prison that has been plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an incarcerated person was assaulted at FCI Tucson at around 12:30 p.m. local time Friday. In a statement, the agency said responding employees contained the incident and performed “life-saving measures” before the inmate, who it did not name, was taken to a hospital for further treatment and evaluation.
No employees were injured and the FBI was notified, the Bureau of Prisons said. Visiting at the facility, which has about 380 inmates, has been suspended.
Messages seeking comment were left with Chauvin’s lawyers and the FBI.
Chauvin’s stabbing is the second high-profile attack on a federal prisoner in the last five months. In July, disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar was stabbed by a fellow inmate at a federal penitentiary in Florida.
It is also the second major incident at the Tucson federal prison in a little over a year. In November 2022, an inmate at the facility’s low-security prison camp pulled out a gun and attempted to shoot a visitor in the head . The weapon, which the inmate shouldn’t have had, misfired and no one was hurt.
Chauvin, 47, was sent to FCI Tucson from a maximum-security Minnesota state prison in August 2022 to simultaneously serve a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights and a 22½-year state sentence for second-degree murder .
Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric Nelson, had advocated for keeping him out of general population and away from other inmates, anticipating he’d be a target. In Minnesota, Chauvin was mainly kept in solitary confinement “largely for his own protection,” Nelson wrote in court papers last year.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Chauvin’s appeal of his murder conviction. Separately, Chauvin is making a longshot bid to overturn his federal guilty plea , claiming new evidence shows he didn’t cause Floyd’s death.
Floyd, who was Black, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, pressed a knee on his neck for 9½ minutes on the street outside a convenience store where Floyd was suspected of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.
Bystander video captured Floyd’s fading cries of “I can’t breathe.” His death touched off protests worldwide, some of which turned violent, and forced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism .
Three other former officers who were at the scene received lesser state and federal sentences for their roles in Floyd’s death.
Chauvin’s stabbing comes as the federal Bureau of Prisons has faced increased scrutiny in recent years following wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s jail suicide in 2019 . It's another example of the agency’s inability to keep even its highest profile prisoners safe after Nassar’s stabbing and “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s suicide at a federal medical center in June.
An ongoing AP investigation has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an annual budget of about $8 billion.
AP reporting has revealed rampant sexual abuse and other criminal conduct by staff, dozens of escapes , chronic violence, deaths and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies , including inmate assaults and suicides.
Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters was brought in last year to reform the crisis-plagued agency . She vowed to change archaic hiring practices and bring new transparency, while emphasizing that the agency's mission is “to make good neighbors, not good inmates."
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, Peters touted steps she'd taken to overhaul problematic prisons and beef up internal affairs investigations. This month, she told a House Judiciary subcommittee that hiring had improved and that new hires were outpacing retirements and other departures.
But Peters has also irritated lawmakers who said she reneged on her promise to be candid and open with them. In September, senators scolded her for forcing them to wait more than a year for answers to written questions and for claiming that she couldn’t answer basic questions about agency operations , like how many correctional officers are on staff.
Who was the victim on May 25, 2020?
The dead guy.
The one full of drugs with the bad heart that probably died of complications of both: that guy?
Better luck next time to whoever stabbed him!
So Chauvin knew all that before the arrest? At the end of the day, kneeling on someone's neck for 9 minutes is absolutely unnecessary. At MOST a few seconds to put the cuffs on, (and leg restraints if needed), but 9 fucking minutes Vic? Seriously? That's well beyond incompetent and the JURY saw that.
gee, maybe he wouldn't lie still long enough for somebody to kneel on his neck for 10 minutes. it's hilarious when murderous public servants get a heaping helping of karma...
But Chauvin wasn't the cause of death.
"They" lied.
Yes, Chauvin murdered Floyd in front of dozens of witnesses.
Exactly, karma, not FCI failure.
Bingo.
Meh...
One less POS off the street.
I agree, Chauvin was clearly a POS.
Maybe he is...
But the real POS is dead.
Good riddance.
Any police officers left with that attitude are the very root of the problem. They are not our judge, jury and executioner!
Where did I say that he was? I said a POS (Floyd) was taken off the street.
That's it.
You want to read something else into it.....
not my problem.
So Floyd was trying to pass a fake 20, Chauvin murdered someone and Floyd is the POS?
That's one hell of an echo chamber you live in.
Floyd scammed and victimized many people over the years. I feel the same about every criminal.
My post stands.
The POS has been removed from this earth.
If you think the truth is an echo chamber, than so be it.
What can we do to get progressives to step up and take the oath?
Never will happen.
Even if it did, their first order of business would be to defund themselves and throw Molotov cocktails down their pants.
He was an armed robber who robbed a woman at gunpoint in her home in front of her young child.
A true left wing hero. Well deserving of the statue they built of him.
Here in our nation’s capital, the city police force has around 3,350 sworn officers, a net loss of about 450 over the past three years. Current expectations has the size of the force falling to about 3,130 by the end of 2024. All the while more restaurants and retail businesses fail due to crime. Big market though in used cars and car parts with the sharp increase in hijackings.
We have lots of progressives here but few willing to take on the responsibility of helping the community. All talk and little walk.
A true hero to his family after leaving them around $40M.
Um, you posted your opinion, not a fact.
My opinion tends to turn out as fact....
Therefore, I can claim with certainty....
I am not a leftist.
This is good news! A murderer got stabbed. I'm all broken up about it.
Exactly, good news. Stabbings and rape are just part of a federal sentence:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inside one of the only federal women’s prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.
Prisoners and workers at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, even have a name for it: “The rape club".
Deflection
Didn't really read the seed again?
How does one get at someone in solitary confinement with a knife?
Maybe that is why they wanted him in with the general population. He was the great villain of the radical left!
I am sure there are some that will celebrate his stabbing and hope for his demise.
See comment 1.3 .
Karma is a bitch ain't it?
Not surprised.
No
“He was the great villain of the radical left!”
all he needs to do to be a hero to the whacked out left is come out against trump.
What did Chauvin do to be a rightwing hero?
Never mind. Chauvin murdered a black man!
I don’t know anybody that thinks he’s a hero. [Deleted]
What proof do you have that the right feel he is a hero?
I submit the comments by rightwingers here as evidence...
No one thinks he is a hero.
Here is a question for you to ponder.
What did Floyd, a known scammer, felon and woman beater that has had (ooops...scratch the "has") multiple convictions over the years, do to be a hero and deserve a statue in his honor?
Just because someone takes a POS off the streets does not make him a hero.
He just took a POS off the streets.
To submit them as evidence, you need to quote them, otherwise it’s just hot air.
Please enlighten me. I see no one that says Chauvin is a hero. And even if any one or two did please tell me how that relates to the right as a whole.
While I agree Floyd was no hero, his summary and very public execution under the relentless knee of office Derek Chauvin made him another victim of murderous police brutality...
Another in a long list of Americans unnecessarily killed by those sworn to serve and protect. Heroes? What heroes?
Still no quotes to back up your assertion on 2.2.4 ?
Why don’t cities with Dem mayors and councils, and Dem DA’s reform their PD’s?
Let me put it this way and I am going to leave it there...
If most of these idiots that were killed by police did not put themselves, VOLUNTARILY, in situations where they would not have made contact with the po po, then maybe, just maybe, they would be alive today.
They did....
By defunding them
And many of them are whining about it now. A few are even trying to blame Republicans for defunding police in hopes people are really really stupid.
Funny that as a white male my father taught me that as soon as I learned to drive. He also told me if I was ever stopped yes sir and no sir should be about all I say to a cop stopping me. It was not time to be a wise ass and attempt to be funny.
Wow!!!!
My father taught me the same thing.
Maybe we are related.......
Surely no one else has ever been taught this.
Yup and their endless defense of the indefensible, of the murderer chauvin and blame the victim, Floyd
Sometimes I actually wonder. The number of people with their law degrees from Facebook, twitter, Instagram, etc. telling police what their rights are seems to be exploding. My son in law (a cop) tells us these stories often and always ends them with "You can't make this shit up".
Gee, and as a white male you never had any worries about being killed by a racist cop, like chauvin, for no reason other than being black.
The last time I was pulled over many years ago, it was by a black cop.
Funny that I was respectful, answered his questions, called him "sir" (probably the military and my dad's military telling me to do so....or just plain respect.)
The weirdest thing?
I was let off with a warning.
To this day, I'm not sure why he would do such a thing s/
All the more reason to do exactly what my father told me. Don't give any of the .000001% of the actual racist cops a reason to do anything bad.
The outcome might very well have been different if he actually followed the advice I was talking about.
Amazing the number of people that don't get it. They would rather say all cops are racist therefore resist and give the cop a reason to .........(fill in the blank).
So, Chauvin was convicted, lost on appeal and now he is somehow innocent. There was a video of the murder and multiple witnesses and this isn't like it's the first time it ever happened in Minneapolis and much of MN. The Police Dept has a bad rap which is quite accurate. They have been out of control for decades and have lost numerous cases against them.
Remember this is where a ''training officer'' with over 20 years as an LEO couldn't tell the difference between her firearm and a fricking taser, result one dead citizen or the shooting a guy sitting in his car with his girlfriend and their baby there.
I'm not happy that he was stabbed nor do I want him to die. I want him to serve every day that he was sentenced to, every single day.
I haven't found evidence of anyone in the seeded article or in comments here that support your claim. Perhaps I missed it? If I did, please show me where I can find it. Thanks!
Just review Vic's comments 1, 1.1.1 and 1.2.1
You're welcome.
None of those comments state that Chauvin is innocent. They do, however, pose questions and provide facts.
Everyone has an opinion.
There is a question in that one but where is the fact?
Another with a question but again ''probably'' isn't a fact.
Sounds like a statement without any facts.
Cheers, I'm off to have a great dinner.
Oh, if Floyd was a black cop kneeling on a white guys neck for 9 minutes, (until he died), you can bet that the right wing would STILL be outraged about it.
“you can bet that the right wing would STILL be outraged about it.”
I doubt it. Most would probably look at it as “good, one less thug on the street to victimize innocent people”.
Bingo!
We would never have heard about it.
Chauvin got what he deserved. Fuck that worthless POS.
So you think being stabbed while in prison is appropriate punishment?
Wow.
So you think that kneeling on someone's neck for 9 minutes, killing them, for passing a fake 20 is appropriate punishment?
Wow.
I never claimed anything like that ever, but you claimed him getting stabbed was what he deserved, hence my question that you didn't answer.
In my opinion yes, he got what he deserved.
You said, "what I think", so, I simply retorted with, "what YOU think". See how easy that was?
So you think stabbing is an appropriate punishment.
A little harsh, but I get that revenge feeds the bloodlust.
For murdering someone? He should have received far worse than a shanking.
I am guessing then that you don't like our system of justice.
Do you believe in capital punishment for all murderers?
Interesting question.
I am curious about the answer.
Only those that killed those that the left martyrs.
Don't hold your breath...
The DA and DoJ let us down?
After one appeal, (because even courts of law can make mistakes)? Yes I do. I am a 100% supporter of the death penalty.
She should have...answered.
Yes, and an interesting one too.
Let me guess, you don't support the death penalty?
Absolutely, I just find it interesting that someone as progressive as you seem to be would think one appeal is sufficient.....
Or do you just approve of yard justice?...
How many should they get?
Are there any other crimes you believe deserve capital punishment?
Some appear to feel that the murderer chauvin was the judge, jury, and executioner.
Like Floyd? Do you feel death was the appropriate sentence for allegedly trying to pass a counterfeit bill? His life was worth $20 to some.
Did I ever say it was? I am specifically talking about going through the justice system.
His death was worth $40M to his family.
The family, whom he probably had little contact with, is now saying..
George who?
IMO it was inevitable that Chauvin would be attacked if he were not kept isolated from the general inmate population, as damn well everyone knows unless they were born yesterday. Now, the question could be asked, are they going to put Donnie in a cell with "Big Bubba"?
Chauvin got shanked on Black Friday...gotta love it.