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.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      28·
      8 months ago

      I don’t feel the need to wish people harm, but I also don’t feel the need to care equally for everyone who is harmed. Sucks to suck.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
      51·
      8 months ago

      This is the most appropriate response so far. Condoning violence on someone serving their sentence is kind of fucked. If death were an option, many people would opt for it and this just shows how little people grasp the severity of time is as a punishment.

      After approximately two years, people start to lose the ability to live a normal life. They end up becoming institutionalized and only being able to live in a prison facility.

      This helps nobody. This does not rehabilitate, teach, or forgive. You can’t get back what was lost, but you can promote growth, or feed hate I suppose. Hate breeds more hate though.

  • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    8 months ago

    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.

    I feel like this should be the bigger story.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      With a rap sheet like that, he should move down to Florida and apply to be a cop. They’ll hire him in a heartbeat.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    31·
    8 months ago

    I guess one way for a snitch to get some rep back is to stab a cop 22 times 🤷‍♂️

  • pubquiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    8 months ago

    At least we know part of the answer to: “How many times does one have to stab a pig to kill it.” Clearly the answer is > 22.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    252·
    8 months ago

    That really sucks. I completely forgot to grab dip earlier at the store. Full bag of chips, and I gotta eat them dry watching my show tonight. Booo

    • TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      Wait did this happen before? Or are you just talking about the instance where he got stabbed 22 times (which is impressive) a couple months ago mentioned in the article?

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      48·
      8 months ago

      Check out the very first sentence of the article you didn’t read:

      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

      For the life of me, I can’t understand why so many people think they can absorb an entire article through the headline…

  • barsquid@lemmy.world
    16·
    8 months ago

    Perhaps this will motivate police unions to fight as hard against conditions that allow prison stabbings as they do against people being held accountable for murder.

    • Andonyx@lemmy.world
      12·
      8 months ago

      Hah! Good one. They’ll just fight to make it impossible to send a cop to prison no matter how many people they murder.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
      17·
      8 months ago

      That’s anger talking. It doesn’t make sense for compliant, low risk inmates to be in maximum security prisons.

      • LordGimp@lemm.ee
        73·
        8 months ago

        Nah nah nah. Guy needs super max for his own protection. In this day and age, officer safety is a real concern, even with disgraced former officers. Derek “Soft Derriere” Chauvin needs full 23 hour a day isolation interspersed with supervised private yard time. Anything less and I’m just petrified poor Derek won’t survive. Shame.

      • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
        75·
        8 months ago

        Ya, I am angry, but no, that’s not why. If he isn’t in almost 24-hour isolation, he’s gonna get stabbed or beat or raped or killed. The best place to provide for that is a supermax. And I don’t care if this makes me a bad person, but this asshole deserves to suffer for the rest of his life.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    69·
    8 months ago

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