The inmate who stabbed former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin in prison did so 22 times, it has emerged. Former Mexican Mafia member John Turscak, 52, stabbed Chauvin inside a Tucson federal prison and said he would’ve killed him if corrections officers had not responded so quickly, prosecutors said. …
Read More »Stabbing of Derek Chauvin Raises Questions About Inmate Safety
The stabbing on Friday of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020, at a special unit inside a Tucson, Ariz., prison is the latest in a series of attacks against high-profile inmates in the troubled, short-staffed federal Bureau of Prisons. The assault comes …
Read More »Former police officer, Derek Chauvin convicted of murdering George Floyd, stabbed in prison
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd was on Friday, November 24, stabbed in a federal prison in Arizona and seriously injured. The attack happened at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a medium-security prison that has been plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages. The …
Read More »Chauvin gets 21 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights
Former US police officer, convicted last year of murdering Floyd in Minneapolis, will serve sentence in federal prison. A United States federal court has sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating the civil rights of George Floyd, a Black man killed when Chauvin …
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