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.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    816·
    3 months ago

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

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months 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·
      3 months 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.