Prosecution: Fellow inmate stabbed George Floyd's killer Derek Chauvin 22 times
Chauvin's fellow inmate had attacked the 47-year-old ex-policeman last week on Black Friday. According to the indictment, he wanted to remind people of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is directed against the widespread police violence against black people in the USA.
The 52-year-old faces 20 additional years in prison for attempted murder in the case. He is also alleged to have stabbed another inmate more than 20 times.
The public prosecutor's office did not name Chauvin in its statement. However, an official source confirmed to the AFP news agency that the victim of the aforementioned knife attack was the former Minneapolis police officer. No details were given about Chauvin's condition after the attack.
In May 2020, the white police officer Chauvin had pressed his knee into the neck of George Floyd, a black man arrested in Minneapolis for an allegedly counterfeit 20-dollar bill, for around nine and a half minutes, despite Floyd repeatedly complaining that he could no longer breathe. The 46-year-old African-American died as a result.
Floyd's complaint "I can't breathe" went around the world and became a slogan of the anti-racism movement Black Lives Matter. The case sparked mass protests against racism and police violence in the USA and many other countries.
In June 2021, Chauvin was sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison for second-degree murder - in German law, this is roughly equivalent to manslaughter in a serious case. A few days before the knife attack on Chauvin, the US Supreme Court had rejected an appeal by Chauvin against his conviction.
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Source: www.stern.de
