Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate at a federal prison in Arizona on Friday, a source told The Associated Press.
Chauvin was seriously injured in the attack around 12:30 p.m. at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, according to the source and the Bureau of Prisons, which did not name the inmate in a statement to the outlet.
Sources told ABC News that Chauvin was later listed in “stable” condition and is expected to survive.
Prison employees took “life-saving measures” before Chauvin was hospitalized, the federal agency said.
Chauvin’s attacker was also taken to a hospital for additional treatment and evaluation.
Chauvin was seriously injured after being stabbed in a federal prison, according to a report.AP Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.via REUTERS
No employees were injured and the FBI was notified, the Bureau of Prisons said. Visits to the center, which houses about 380 inmates, have been suspended.
The stabbing comes just a week after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Chauvin’s appeal of his second-degree murder conviction in the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
Chauvin claimed new evidence shows he did not cause Floyd’s death, sparking nationwide unrest and a long-running debate over race relations in the United States.
Chauvin in an undated booking photo after being transferred from a county jail to a Minnesota Department of Corrections state facility.via REUTERS
His lawyers also argued that Chauvin was denied a fair trial because of the publicity surrounding the case and concerns about possible violence if he was acquitted.
They had advocated keeping their client out of the general prison population and other inmates, anticipating he would be a target.
The former Minneapolis police officer has been serving his 22.5-year prison sentence at FCI Tucson since a state court found him guilty in April 2021 of killing Floyd.
Protests in the summer of 2020 after the death of George Floyd.AFP via Getty Images
FCI Tucson, as well as other federal prisons, have been plagued by staffing shortages and security lapses.
A year earlier, an inmate at the Arizona facility’s low-security prison camp pulled out a gun and tried to shoot a visitor in the head. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
Chauvin’s stabbing also marks the second high-profile attack on inmates in recent months at a federal prison.
Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who sexually abused hundreds of gymnasts, was stabbed at least 10 times in July with a makeshift weapon inside his cell in a federal prison in Florida.
The attack on Nassar was not captured by any surveillance camera.
A month earlier, infamous Unabomber Ted Kaczynski committed suicide inside his prison cell in North Carolina.
Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters was hired last year to address the federal prison system’s universal problems of understaffing, escapees, rampant sexual abuse, inmate deaths and other systemic problems.
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