Derek Chauvin, shown in an April 2021 booking photo, was remanded to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, his attorney said. Minnesota Department of Corrections/AFP via Getty Images
Ex-cop killer Derek Chauvin is out of the hospital and back in the prison where he was stabbed 22 times by a Black Lives Matter-inspired inmate the day after Thanksgiving.
Chauvin, the 47-year-old former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd in 2020, has been returned to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, even though his family fears for his safety there, his attorney, Gregory Erickson, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
“Derek’s family confirmed that his medical condition has improved so much that he has been released from the trauma care facility at a local Tucson hospital and returned to prison custody for his follow-up care,” Erickson said.
The Chauvin family is “deeply concerned about the facility’s ability to protect Derek from further harm” and “they remain unconvinced that any changes were made to the faulty procedures that allowed Derek’s assault to occur in the first place,” the lawyer said.
John Turscak was charged with attempted murder for the attack on Chauvin, which he said he carried out on Black Friday as a symbol of solidarity with Black Lives Matter, the movement that led nationwide protests of police brutality after Chauvin killed Floyd, who was caught on camera. .
Turscak, who served decades in connection with his role in the Mexican Mafia prison gang, allegedly told corrections officers he would kill Chauvin with a “knife he made” if they didn’t intervene.
Chauvin is serving a 23-year sentence after being convicted of murder and second- and third-degree murder in Floyd’s death.
He has appealed his murder conviction, but the US Supreme Court said last month it would not hear his case.
A former Minneapolis police officer is serving a 23-year sentence for killing George Floyd. Facebook
The federal prison was also the site of the 2018 attack on USA Gymnastics doctor and serial sexual predator Larry Nassar.
Nassar was moved out of prison before being attacked again in a Florida prison earlier this year.
With Postal wire
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