Another former Minneapolis officer, Thomas Lane, who held down Floyd’s legs as he struggled to breathe, was released from federal prison in Colorado on Tuesday.

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, was transferred to a federal prison in Texas almost nine months after he was stabbed in a different facility, the federal Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Chauvin, 47, is now housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, a low-security prison. He was previously held in Arizona at FCI Tucson in August 2022 to simultaneously serve a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights and a 22 1/2-year state sentence for second-degree murder.

The transfer comes nearly nine months after Chauvin was stabbed 22 times in prison by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant.

  • barsquid@lemmy.world
    22·
    22 days ago

    Perhaps this will motivate police unions to fight as hard against conditions that allow prison stabbings as they do against people being held accountable for murder.

    • Andonyx@lemmy.world
      17·
      22 days ago

      Hah! Good one. They’ll just fight to make it impossible to send a cop to prison no matter how many people they murder.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    51·
    23 days ago

    I guess one way for a snitch to get some rep back is to stab a cop 22 times 🤷‍♂️

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
      333·
      23 days ago

      That’s anger talking. It doesn’t make sense for compliant, low risk inmates to be in maximum security prisons.

      • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
        116·
        23 days ago

        Ya, I am angry, but no, that’s not why. If he isn’t in almost 24-hour isolation, he’s gonna get stabbed or beat or raped or killed. The best place to provide for that is a supermax. And I don’t care if this makes me a bad person, but this asshole deserves to suffer for the rest of his life.

      • LordGimp@lemm.ee
        84·
        23 days ago

        Nah nah nah. Guy needs super max for his own protection. In this day and age, officer safety is a real concern, even with disgraced former officers. Derek “Soft Derriere” Chauvin needs full 23 hour a day isolation interspersed with supervised private yard time. Anything less and I’m just petrified poor Derek won’t survive. Shame.

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    22 days ago

    Another former Minneapolis officer, Thomas Lane, who held down Floyd’s legs as he struggled to breathe, was released from federal prison in Colorado on Tuesday.

    I feel like this should be the bigger story.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      4·
      22 days ago

      With a rap sheet like that, he should move down to Florida and apply to be a cop. They’ll hire him in a heartbeat.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    816·
    22 days ago

    ITT: “leftists” celebrating the brutality of our fascist punitive correctional system.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      I’m against the system that allowed him to be stabbed in prison, but I’d be lying if I said I’m not happy he was stabbed. I wish the absolute worst upon people who abuse a position of public trust to such a degree that they kill someone.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmings.world
      181·
      22 days ago

      Prisons are fucking awful but if they are going to stay awful I’m glad at least ONE victim is a member of the fascists that helped make it what it is.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      53·
      23 days ago

      I don’t feel the need to wish people harm, but I also don’t feel the need to care equally for everyone who is harmed. Sucks to suck.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
      56·
      23 days ago

      This is the most appropriate response so far. Condoning violence on someone serving their sentence is kind of fucked. If death were an option, many people would opt for it and this just shows how little people grasp the severity of time is as a punishment.

      After approximately two years, people start to lose the ability to live a normal life. They end up becoming institutionalized and only being able to live in a prison facility.

      This helps nobody. This does not rehabilitate, teach, or forgive. You can’t get back what was lost, but you can promote growth, or feed hate I suppose. Hate breeds more hate though.

      • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today
        3·
        22 days ago

        Some people are beyond rehabilitation. You let them out and they something terrible again are you going to say aww shucks, the child rapist got out and raped another child, really thought the rehab would have helped?

        So that person that can’t be rehabilitated, will spend the rest of their life in jail while our tax dollars pay for him to live, meanwhile the victim will live the rest of their life traumatized by what he did, with no support of help from our tax dollars. He will never offer anything useful to society.

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
      25·
      23 days ago

      For me it would be Sheriff Arpaio. That definitely happened in the good timeline where he didn’t get a presidential pardon.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        103·
        22 days ago

        I would not. I would not be okay with anyone being stabbed in prison.

        Prison shouldn’t be about vengeance. I don’t care how awful you are.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    462·
    23 days ago

    That really sucks. I completely forgot to grab dip earlier at the store. Full bag of chips, and I gotta eat them dry watching my show tonight. Booo

  • pubquiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    571·
    23 days ago

    At least we know part of the answer to: “How many times does one have to stab a pig to kill it.” Clearly the answer is > 22.