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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured at the Arizona prison where he is serving a 22-year sentence for murdering George Floyd.

Chauvin, 47, was attacked on Friday, AP reported, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson - a medium-security prison that has been plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages.

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an incarcerated person was assaulted at FCI Tucson at around 12:30pm 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.

Chauvin 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 22-and-a-half-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.

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No one should be surprised. A jailed cop is a target in any jail. I don't mean to be a cynic, but I would not be surprised that they will let him out soon for whatever reason they can come up with. Cops take care of cops. They will point to him as the shining example of what happens to cops when they are required to take responsibility for their actions. So, we can't have that happen anymore they will claim.
 
The article that I read yesterday mentioned under staffing, and that BOP's budget was only $8 billion, which seems paltry compared to CDCR's $10 billion budget, before I left in 2017. Ex cops, child molesters and inmates that don't pay their drug debts are put into protective custody. Of course if staff is spread thin some inmates fall through the cracks in the system.
 

Nathan said:
The article that I read yesterday mentioned under staffing, and that BOP's budget was only $8 billion, which seems paltry compared to CDCR's $10 billion budget, before I left in 2017. Ex cops, child molesters and inmates that don't pay their drug debts are put into protective custody. Of course if staff is spread thin some inmates fall through the cracks in the system.
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And they can't keep a prisoner in protective custody for their entire sentence, even if they only get a couple years. They go into general population at some point.

Might vary from state to state, but I think PC is usually limited to a maximum 6 months. A prisoner can be put in and out of PC, though, and Chauvin will probably be put back in for a while.
 
I bet Mr. Floyd would welcome a knife in the gut instead of a knee on the neck until death. RIP

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Protective custody does not necessarily mean solitary confinement, although an PC inmate might be housed there if that's the only accommodations available. California's CDCR has SNY facilities("sensitive needs yards") with several institutions. CRC- Norco, where I worked had an SNY facility consisting of several buildings and bungalows with a dorm layout.

Even on the SNY yard a person can get slashed or stabbed, happened to a former Plant Ops inmate worker from the carpenter's shop, who it was discovered had a child molester conviction. He was a good carpenter, but personally was a jerk...
 
All this vitriol talk about Chauvin ..... Do any of you know the criminal record of Floyd ? Look it up, if you care enough about making informed remarks about the incident at all.

Chauvin only used an [@ that time] taught, practiced , and accepted procedure when effecting the arrest. It just went bad for the criminal, due to his poor respiratory health.

The med-first responders took a-bit long to arrive ... and he died in that position .

And let us not forget the bottom line reason for his death. If he were not a criminal in the first place ... he would not be dead.

But no, let's praise/coddle the criminal & scoff the police .... that do their best to keep us safe.
 
hollydolly said:
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured at the Arizona prison where he is serving a 22-year sentence for murdering George Floyd.

Chauvin, 47, was attacked on Friday, AP reported, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson - a medium-security prison that has been plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages.

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an incarcerated person was assaulted at FCI Tucson at around 12:30pm 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.

Chauvin 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 22-and-a-half-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.

Derek Chauvin stabbed in Arizona prison where he is serving 22 years
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I hate to say, I thought it was a matter of time before that would happen.
 
Rakaia said:
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Floyd was a criminal who had been caught, punished and had done his time.
His past is irrelevant in the circumstances, Chauvin never had the right to be judge, jury and executioner.
No one should be above the law, those who uphold it must also abide by it.
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Floyd's past wasn't part of the arrest,and Cahuvin wasn'tbeing judge,jury & executioner, he was making an arrest by the book ... plain & simple. {I} pointed out Floyd's past criminal record ... these are the kind of people the police deal with every day on the street in an attempt to keep the rest of us safe. If one wants to remove all chance of dying in an encounter with the police ....behave ! It's just that simple.
Also, I never said anyone was above the law, but Chauvin never should have been charged.
 
rgp said:
I don't know if Chauvin was callous,cold, and uncaring ... I only know that he was a police officer making an arrest.
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There are alot of great police officers in this country. No one is condemning them. Just one heartless bastard who probably would behaved differently if the man he killed was of his own race. May he spend the rest of his life in prison and spend every day reflecting back on just why he is there. No pity. He doesn't deserve any. He wasn't doing his job at all. Open your mind and eyes. Just look at that picture of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd's neck. No compassion. No pity when Floyd was calling out. Look at that face and those eyes. No kindness. No humanity at all. Just a cold hearted man with no compassion at all.
 
Rakaia said:
@rgp
Floyd was a criminal who had been caught, punished and had done his time.
His past is irrelevant in the circumstances, Chauvin never had the right to be judge, jury and executioner.
No one should be above the law, those who uphold it must also abide by it.
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Funny how after Floyd died his past criminal actions was hardly ever mentioned. Many people never even heard that he had broken and entered a pregnant woman's house and held a gun against her stomach while his friends robbed her. After all if the press had mentioned that it would have been speaking bad of the victim and we don't do that do we?

Yet now that Chauvin has been stabbed every news outlet and this thread is using the opportunity to repeat Chauvin's past crime. Blaming the victim is fine when it's Derek Chauvin I guess. I haven't seen a single negative word about the attempted murderer.

At least Chauvin was struggling with a huge man who was resisting arrest, using a hold he had used in the past with no lasting consequences. He didn't just walk up and stab someone.

BTW Chauvin did not have his hands in his pockets. He was wearing black gloves and his hand was braced against his leg which was wearing black pants so it only looked like his hand was in his pocket. I imagine it's not easy for a small cop at the end of a long shift to hold down a drugged up giant of a man.
 
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Paladin1950 said:
There are alot of great police officers in this country. No one is condemning them. Just one heartless bastard who probably would behaved differently if the man he killed was of his own race. May he spend the rest of his life in prison and spend every day reflecting back on just why he is there. No pity. He doesn't deserve any. He wasn't doing his job at all. Open your mind and eyes. Just look at that picture of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd's neck. No compassion. No pity when Floyd was calling out. Look at that face and those eyes. No kindness. No humanity at all. Just a cold hearted man with no compassion at all.
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It must be nice to know all about a man by his picture in one moment of his life. I have no doubt Derek Chauvin was angry when that video was shown. He had been struggling with Floyd for almost an hour and for all we know it was the tenth non-compliant person he'd dealt with that day, and at the moment he had a crowd of no-it-alls standing around telling him how to do his job. Of course he looked angry.

He was probably fresh out of pity for George Floyd, who when he was first drug out of his van had stood up and said, "I can't breathe" even before being cuffed. When you holler wolf like that people aren't going to believe you when it's real.

You have zero reason to think Chauvin was racist. He was married to an Asian woman. One local black man who saw Chauvin on the beat daily said he always spoke in a friendly manner (and he was a witness for the prosecution but said he'd always liked Chauvin.) The prosecution, made up of twenty lawyers, had a year to prepare for the trial and didn't come up with a single example of racism. You know they would have loved to add a hate crime to their request for an extra long sentence.

That prison is full of people who have committed heinous crimes, crimes against children and women, premeditated, vicious crimes that include torture, but the one you're all gloating over being stabbed is a man who spent his life on the right side of the law and then messed up one day. I'm not saying he shouldn't have been punished for his bad decisions that day that resulted in the death of a man in custody, but a few years for manslaughter should have been enough.
 
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Robb.hisself said:
Cops take care of cops.
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You must not have watched the trial. I saw about fifteen cops in a row testify against Chauvin. They were only too eager to throw him under the bus in order to distance themselves from him. They knew how public opinion was going and they all wanted to save themselves from being associated with him. The mob outside the court house ruled the day, justice had nothing to do with his sentence.
 
Paladin1950 said:
There are alot of great police officers in this country. No one is condemning them. Just one heartless bastard who probably would behaved differently if the man he killed was of his own race. May he spend the rest of his life in prison and spend every day reflecting back on just why he is there. No pity. He doesn't deserve any. He wasn't doing his job at all. Open your mind and eyes. Just look at that picture of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd's neck. No compassion. No pity when Floyd was calling out. Look at that face and those eyes. No kindness. No humanity at all. Just a cold hearted man with no compassion at all.
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Well, I don't have your crystal ball ... to judge someones emotions / character .

I only know facts, and fact is, he {Chauvin} was making an arrest, in an approved manner. Criminals holler out all the time, in an attempt to [perhaps] get free. What should they [cops] do, ask the criminal nicely to come to jail ?

Why are you playing the race card ? It was a law enforcement officer arresting a criminal .... nothing more. You're reading things in, that do not belong.
 

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