2023-12-02 04:26:49
An inmate who stabbed former police officer Derek Chauvin more than 20 times last week in a US federal prison has been charged with attempted homicide, prosecutors in charge of the case announced Friday.
While serving a 22 and a half year prison sentence, Derek Chauvin, 47, was attacked on November 24 in a library of a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona.
One of his fellow inmates, aged 52, is accused of stabbing him more than 20 times using a homemade knife, according to a court document.
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The day of “Black Friday”
The man told investigators that he had knowingly chosen the date of the attack, the day of “Black Friday” famous for its commercial discounts, in reference to the anti-racist movement “Black Lives Matter”, again according to the same source. The accused “told prison officers that he would have killed Derek Chauvin if they had not reacted so quickly,” the document continues.
The federal prosecutors’ office in Tucson said it had charged the attacker with several counts, including attempted homicide – punishable by 20 years in prison – and assault causing serious injury.
Although no press release or complaint gives the full name of Derek Chauvin, an official source confirmed that the victim was indeed the former Minneapolis police officer. No information has been released on his current state of health
Appeal rejected
The death of George Floyd, in May 2020 during his arrest, provoked a large anti-racist movement in the United States and beyond American borders. Derek Chauvin, a white police officer then a veteran Minneapolis law enforcement officer, remained kneeling for nearly ten minutes on the neck of George Floyd, aged 46, remaining indifferent to the interventions of shocked passers-by and the groans of the forty-year-old. .
The United States Supreme Court rejected Derek Chauvin’s appeal against this conviction in November. The former police officer requested the annulment of the sentence, on the grounds that the extreme media coverage of the case and the risk of riots had deprived him of a “fair” trial.
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