New details known - George Floyd's murderer Derek Chauvin: fellow inmate stabbed him 22 times
Around a week ago, Derek Chauvin was stabbed in a prison in Tucson in the US state of Arizona. The former police officer, who was serving a long prison sentence there for the murder of African-American George Floyd, was seriously injured by a fellow inmate. As reported by the Associated Press news agency and others, a gang member stabbed the 47-year-old 22 times with an improvised knife in the prison library. The 52-year-old told the prison guards that he would have killed Chauvin if he had not been stopped, according to a court document. Prison guards had overpowered the attacker with pepper spray.
He also later stated on the record that he had thought about attacking Chauvin for a month because he was a prominent prison inmate. However, he denied any intention to kill. He had chosen "Black Friday" as the day of the attack for symbolic reasons in connection with the Black Lives Matter movement, which received widespread support after Floyd's murder in 2020.
Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck during police operation
The attacker has been charged with attempted murder. The 52-year-old faces 20 additional years in prison in the case. He is also alleged to have stabbed another inmate more than 20 times. He was transferred to a neighboring federal prison after the crime. Nothing is yet known about Chauvin's condition.
George Floyd was killed in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis in May 2020. Videos documented how police officers pushed the unarmed man to the ground. The white officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for a good nine minutes while he begged to let him breathe. At the time, the case led to nationwide protests against police violence and racism. Chauvin was later convicted of murder and sentenced to more than two decades in prison.
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- Despite being in prison for his involvement in George Floyd's murder, Derek Chauvin became a target of a knife attack in the public prosecutor's office's custody in Tucson, USA.
- The world was abuzz with the 'Top news' of Derek Chauvin's stabbing by a fellow inmate, who admitted to planning the attack for over a month.
- In a shocking turn of events, the man responsible for the 'Indictment' of Chauvin, attacked him 22 times with an improvised knife during 'Black Friday', a day symbolic for the Black Lives Matter movement.
- The 'headlines' of worldwide news portals were filled with the incident, as Chauvin served time in the same prison as the man who had attempted to take his life.
- George Floyd's murder trial had major implications in the USA and globally, with 'Police violence' against black individuals becoming a heated topic.
- The 'Knife attack' on Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of 'murder' in the Minneapolis case, is only the latest episode of instability in US prisons.
- With 'Derek Chauvin' now recovering from the attack, the world waits to see how the 'USA's justice system' will handle this new twist in the story.
Source: www.stern.de
