The man who stabbed former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin in prison deliberately attacked on Black Friday as a symbolic connection to the Black Lives Matter movement, according to investigators.
Former Mexican Mafia member John Turscak, 52, stabbed Chauvin 22 times in a Tucson federal prison and said he would kill him if corrections officers didn’t respond quickly, prosecutors said.
He is now charged with attempted murder, assault with intent to murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and assault resulting in bodily harm.
Turscak – who is serving a 30-year sentence for crimes committed while working as an FBI informant – said he thought about stabbing the former police officer convicted of killing black man George Floyd by kneeling on his neck during his arrest for months before the act.
Turscak attacked Chauvin with an “artificial knife” with “intent to do bodily harm” and “to commit murder,” according to a criminal complaint seen by The Post.
He told investigators he chose Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving when stores hold sales events — for his attack because it was “symbolic with the Black Lives Matter movement and the ‘Black Hand’ symbol associated with the Mexican Mafia criminal organization,” according to an FBI agent who interviewed his conversation on Nov. 26
Derek Chauvin was stabbed 22 times, prosecutors said. Minnesota courts
The disgraceful attack on the police officer happened around 12:30pm on November 24 inside the facility’s law library. Officers used pepper spray to subdue Turscak.
Chauvin, who is serving a 22-year sentence for Floyd’s death, was taken to hospital for “emergency medical treatment,” after workers had to perform “life-saving measures” on him.
Turscak waived his Miranda Rights for his interview with the FBI, where he denied he intended to kill Chauvin.
A standard housing unit with a central common area at the federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, where Chauvin is serving a 21-year federal sentence. Federal Bureau of Prisons
A lawyer for the criminal was not listed, although he had represented himself on previous occasions.
He has since been transferred to an adjacent federal facility, where he remains.
Tursak was convicted in 1997 of crimes he committed while working as an FBI informant against the Mexican Mafia. His work resulted in the indictment of 40 mobsters and their associates, according to a 2001 report by the Los Angeles Times.
Tucson Federal Correctional Institution where Derek Chauvin was stabbed by a fellow inmate. Google Maps
However, while being an informant, he handled drugs, extortion, and authorized assault. He was dropped as an informant and charged with extortion and conspiring to kill members of a rival gang, The Times reported.
At the time, Tursak claimed he told the FBI about his methods and was allegedly told: “Do what you have to do.”
“I did not commit the crime for kicks. I did it because I had to if I wanted to survive,” he said at the time.
Chauvin was convicted of killing George Floyd. AP
Chauvin, on the other hand, came into the spotlight in May 2020 after he was pictured kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine and a half minutes, causing his death.
He was sentenced to nearly two decades in federal prison in July 2022 for usurping Floyd’s rights.
His condition following the stabbing is still unknown. Chauvin’s attorney, Greg Erickson, told The Post on Wednesday that his client’s family has not been able to speak with the ex-cop and does not know his current condition.
“They say he’s stable, but he could also be stable but unconscious, we don’t know,” Erickson said. “That’s all we were told.
Erickson could not be reached Friday afternoon.
With Postal wire.
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