2023-11-25 23:30:32
Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who murdered the African-American George Floyd in 2020, He was stabbed this Friday in the federal prison in Arizona (United States), where he is serving his sentence. According to official information, the man was treated by prison doctors and is stable.
Chauvin was sentenced in 2021 to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of African-American Floyd the previous year in an altercation in which the former officer pressed his knee on the neck of the victim, who was handcuffed and asking for help, for more than nine minutes.
Floyd’s murder, caught on video, triggered a huge wave of protests in several cities in the United States against racism and police violence that lasted for months.
The 47-year-old former police officer was stabbed this Friday at the Tucson prison around noon in an incident in which only he was injured. He was treated by emergency workers and taken to a local hospital, sources familiar with the matter told The New York Times.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons, in a statement that did not mention Chauvin by name, indicated that emergency services applied “life-saving measures” to a detainee in that prison and that “they isolated and contained the incident that at no time put the endangering the public.
The channel CNN He also confirmed with a source familiar that it is Chauvin and added that he is in “stable condition.”
The attorney general of Minnesota, where the murder and its supervision took place, Keith Ellison, today declared to that medium his rejection of the “violence” against Chauvin and pointed out that “like any person in prison, he should be able to serve his sentence without fear of reprisals or violence.”
For his part, Terrence Floyd, brother of George Floyd, commented to The Associated Press Saturday that he doesn’t wish anyone to be stabbed in prison, and that he was stunned when he learned what had happened to Chauvin.
“I’m not going to put my energy into anything that happens within those four walls, because my energy went into putting it within those four walls,” Terrence Floyd said. “Whatever happens between those four walls, I really don’t have any feelings about it,” he concluded.
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