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
    1•3 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.