US Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd Stabbed In Prison: Report

The US police officer whose murder of George Floyd sparked massive racial justice protests in 2020, has been stabbed inside prison.

The incident happened on Friday.

Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison, AFP reported.

Chauvin knelt on the 46-year-old George Floyd바카라�s neck for more than nine minutes on a Minneapolis street despite the dying man바카라�s pleas. Floyd바카라�s cries of 바카라�I can바카라�t breathe바카라� were a rallying call for demonstrators domestically and abroad who took to the streets in the killing바카라�s after­math. The US Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed an assault without naming the person wounded.

바카라�An incarcerated individual was assaulted at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Tucson,바카라� in the southwestern state of Arizona, it said in a statement.

바카라�Responding employees initiated life-saving measures for one incarcerated individual,바카라� the statement said, adding that the wounded individual was sent to a local hospital 바카라�for further treatment and evaluation.바카라� Chauvin survived the attack, according to a New York Times.

Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in 2021, and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison.

The incident was caught on video 바카라� providing a drastically different version of events than the initial police news release, which simply stated 바카라�officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress.바카라� 

A Justice Department probe into the Minneapolis police, the findings of which were published in June 2023, said that officers in the department routinely resorted to violent and racist practices, 바카라�including unjustified deadly force.바카라�

The city of Minneapolis, in the midwestern state of Minnesota, also settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Floyd family, agreeing to pay his relatives $27 million.