Derek Chauvin, ex-officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, moved to new prison after being stabbed

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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.

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No one should be stabbed in prison, but of all the people who are, this is who I feel the least sorry for.

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.

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

I would be pretty ok if Martin Shkrelli and Sam Bankman-Fried were stabbed in prison.

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.

Okay but what about them getting stabbed outside of or inbetween prison?

How about not compounding murder with a second murder?

Maybe not murder, maiming yes murder nah. Death is to good for him.

Or... and hear me out here... we don't encourage violence?

But how else will people feel morally superior to people they don't like if they don't flippantly wish violence and death on them?!

I don't even think it's a moral superiority thing. I think it's this idea that people should get what they deserve. Of course, this both ignores that "what they deserve" is entirely subjective and that who should get what they deserve is entirely subjective.

At the same time people are celebrating Chauvin being stabbed in prison, or harmed elsewhere there can easily be found instances of conservatives celebrating when someone they don't like gets stabbed in prison or harmed elsewhere. People on the left were aghast at Republican celebrations of Paul Pelosi being attacked with a hammer. The right thinks he deserved to be attacked because he's a bad, bad man and he got what he deserved.

Maybe no one should get what they deserve. Maybe justice and vengeance should be two different things and we should strive for one without the other.

It's depressing that this isn't the common viewpoint.

Some people commit crimes that are truly sickening, but even in those circumstances the point of prison is rehabilitation and separation of them from the public. Having it become a place for people to fetishize punishment like it is in TV/movies is also sickening.

Maybe it will encourage prison reform? I think about all the falsely imprisoned people and people sent to prison for nonviolent crime and my sympathy for the likes of sbf goes away.

It's not about sympathy. I have no sympathy for Derek Chauvin. It's about prison not being about vengeance.

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.

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.

I've read that permanent effects happen after 12 hours or so. Not all but some.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

What kind of dip do you usually get?

I was really excited when I saw bacon dip. Unfortunately it sucks, don't even bother trying it. I just stay with the tried and true sour cream and onion.

Is he a knife magnet? How does this keep happening to him? Did he do something wrong, or something?

Wait did this happen before? Or are you just talking about the instance where he got stabbed 22 times (which is impressive) a couple months ago mentioned in the article?

It's way funnier if you imagine it's him getting stabbed 22 individual times.

Maybe he was stabbed three times with a 7 point spork and once with a knife

Check out the very first sentence of the article you didn't read:

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

For the life of me, I can't understand why so many people think they can absorb an entire article through the headline...

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.

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

He committed murder he should be in a maximum security prison.

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

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.

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.

May he live forever

I want the opposite of this, but okay...

Living forever in a cage is a lot more horrible than simply dying.

Yeah, but he has a release date as early as 2038, and then an infinite amount of time after that. I'm sure he too hopes to live long enough to see that day, and enjoy what comes after...

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

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.

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.