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.

  • Flying Squid
    7•4 months ago

    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.

      • Flying Squid
        -1•4 months ago

        How about not compounding murder with a second murder?

          • Flying Squid
            -1•4 months ago

            Or… and hear me out here… we don’t encourage violence?

            • @ChronosTriggerWarning
              3•4 months ago

              I’m not encouraging any violence, but i sure am savoring the schadenfreude.

            • @[email protected]
              -1•4 months ago

              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?!

              • Flying Squid
                1•4 months ago

                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.

    • @drunkpostdisaster
      1•4 months ago

      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.

      • Flying Squid
        1•4 months ago

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

        • @drunkpostdisaster
          1•4 months ago

          Until there is serious reform shit likethis is part of the prison experience.

          • Flying Squid
            2•4 months ago

            That doesn’t mean it should be cheered on.

    • @EnderMB
      1•4 months ago

      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.