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.

  • Todd Bonzalez
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    ITT: “leftists” celebrating the brutality of our fascist punitive correctional system.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      173 months ago

      Prisons are fucking awful but if they are going to stay awful I’m glad at least ONE victim is a member of the fascists that helped make it what it is.

    • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      23 months ago

      I’m against the system that allowed him to be stabbed in prison, but I’d be lying if I said I’m not happy he was stabbed. I wish the absolute worst upon people who abuse a position of public trust to such a degree that they kill someone.