Derek Chauvin, the onetime Minneapolis police officer convicted in 2021 of murdering George Floyd, has been stabbed in jail and is critically injured, in response to a number of reviews. Chauvin was reportedly stabbed by one other inmate.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons wouldn’t establish the sufferer, nevertheless it did verify to the AP that an inmate was stabbed at 12:30 p.m. on the Federal Correctional Establishment, Tucson, which is the medium-security jail the place Chauvin is housed. EMTs on website “initiated lifesaving measures,” in response to the New York Occasions, earlier than transferring the sufferer to the hospital.
The 2020 homicide of George Floyd by 19-year MPD veteran Chauvin occurred as three different officers seemed on and Floyd exclaimed he couldn’t breathe. Regardless of that, Chauvin pressed his knee on the person’s neck for nearly 10 minutes. The incident and video of it sparked a wave of protests throughout the nation.
Chauvin was later convicted and sentenced to 22 and a half years in jail.
On Monday, the Supreme Court docket rejected Chauvin’s attraction of his conviction.