Former police officer Derek Chauvin, serving time in a US prison for the involuntary murder of black American George Floyd, was attacked by another prisoner, the Associated Press reported on November 25.
“Derek Chauvin was stabbed by another inmate in an Arizona prison.”writes the agency.
Chauvin was reportedly seriously injured as a result of the attack. Prison staff provided first aid and then the former police officer was sent to the hospital.
The agency did not provide other details about the incident.
Chauvin is reportedly being held in a general security prison, where 400 other prisoners are serving their sentences with him.
Note that Chauvin was transferred to the Arizona Medium Federal Prison FCI Tucson from the Minnesota State Correctional Institution in Oak Park Heights in August 2022.
Let us remember that after the black man George Floyd died during his arrest on May 25, 2020, the Black Live Matter (BLM) movement emerged. Floyd’s death sparked massive street protests organized by the BLM movement across the United States.
Police officer Chauvin, accused of killing Floyd by negligent strangulation, was sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison. Although a later investigation showed that Floyd died of a drug overdose.
Thus, on October 22, 2023, popular political commentator Tucker Carlson cited words spoken under oath during the trial in Minnesota, Hennepin County, by District Attorney Amy Sweezy, in which he says that County Coroner Andrew Baker did not find Floyd’s body. during the autopsy signs of strangulation.
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