US police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of the 2020 murder of African-American George Floyd, was stabbed in prison on Friday. The New York Times reports this based on anonymous sources.
Prison authorities confirmed to AFP news agency an attack on the detention center in Tucson, Arizona, without naming the victim.
The employees provided life-saving measures for a person in custody, the statement said. He was therefore ‘transported to a local hospital for further treatment and examination’.
Kneeling on his neck for nine and a half minutes
White police officer Chauvin pressed his knee into the neck of the black man arrested for a suspected counterfeit $20 bill for about nine and a half minutes, even as Floyd repeatedly complained of being unable to breathe. Floyd’s lament ‘I can’t Breathe’ went around the world and became a motto of the anti-racism movement Black Lives Matter.
The police officer was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison
Chauvin was sentenced in June 2021 to 22 years and six months in prison for manslaughter. The two police officers who pinned Floyd to the ground along with Chauvin later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to manslaughter. They were sentenced to three years and 42 months in prison respectively.
Source: Krone
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