Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd’s killing, stabbed in prison
Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd's killing, stabbed in prison, AP source says
Maybe Chauvin stabbed himself in a state of "excited delirium."
The important thing is, the inmate investigated himself and decided that he did nothing wrong.
He was probably making some “furtive movements” just before the incident.
I would have said that there's no humor to be had here, but I would have been wrong. Twice in one comment.
I'm sorely tempted to start circulating claims about what Chauvin had in his system at the time.
EDIT - Also, this shit:
Chauvin’s stabbing comes as the federal Bureau of Prisons has faced increased scrutiny in recent years following wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s jail suicide in 2019. It’s another example of the agency’s inability to keep even its highest profile prisoners safe after Nassar’s stabbing and “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s suicide at a federal medical center in June.
Oh it's a problem all of a sudden. Can't imagine why.
I’m sorely tempted to start circulating claims about what Chauvin had in his system at the time.
Are we certain the wound was caused by a stabbing and not "Incarceration Delirium"? Or maybe it's a holy miracle stigmata!
Those poor widdle white boys can't take it!
But who gives a shit if we do it to minorities? Nobody, apparently.
Weird thing to say.
Murderer. The proper way to refer to him, mainstream news, is "the murderer Derek Chauvin". He was convicted of murdering George Floyd.
Yep he is a murdering murderer who committed murderous murder against a murderless murderee who was murdered by said murder.
Fyi did you know murderee was a word? I just learned this.
He should have just complied.
I feel this whole case is everything wrong with the justice system (aside from him actually facing consequences). A corrupt cop with a history of violence gets attacked in an overpopulated and understaffed prison where folks are punished instead of rehabilitated.
Right, none of these things should have happened at all. It's just a negative feedback loop of incompetence and corruption.
Prisons sure cost a lot of money to tax payers. Are you sure they're understaffed or is the staff just apathetic
Yes to both. Keep in mind "understaffed" means lots of things to lots of people.
That prisons aren't basically forced schools and therapy is an atrocity, to me, as an example. It changes the entire concept of what prison is about in ways I find unacceptable
I know a prison guard, not very well but yes we have talked a few times. He was telling me how there is basically no system in place for therapy for them. They see something brutal and they are expected to just come into work the next day which causes PTSD to run rampant.
Messed up.
I’d rather they were punished and rehabilitated. Both are necessary.
I'm of the opinion that, while the premise is agreeable it simply isn't possible to rehabilitate police officers.
If someone can be rehabilitated, I believe that implies that they can be unhabilitated. It kinda implies that people aren't inherently bad / don't do bad things without something causing them to. If your dog shits inside because you forgot to take it out, do you punish it? If so, congratulations on being consistent, -ly an asshole.
While it's easy to not sympathize with a person like that, no inmates should be getting stabbed in prison. It's still wrong. And still a symptom of the bad justice system in the US.
Guy committed slow murder and set my country on fire. I don't even know how we would be able to quantify the damage he did. There were BLM protests in countries on different continents. There is now less trust of the police globally, there are were countless riots and deaths and assaults and fires, this mistrust set off cycles of violence and has set race relations back decades. We live in the world now that we rightfully can't trust our own LEOs and they have hunkered down.
There are zero winners here. We all benefit from a police system that works and has earned the public trust. So yes I will shed zero tears for this man. Because fuck his racist asshole
We had BLM protests here in Britain too, but George Floyd isn't the main reason we've grown to distrust cops.
Two years ago, a serving Metropolitan police officer 'arrested' a young woman who was walking home from her friend's house on the basis of her breaching COVID lockdown guidelines. He then raped and murdered her. The Metropolitan Police then proceeded to brutally crack down upon a peaceful vigil held to mourn her.
Wayne Couzens is thankfully serving life without parole for his sickening crime, and the ladies who were manhandled, tackled down and detained during the vigil have been compensated by the courts. This whole scandal because the catalyst that led to Cressida Dick resigning as the Met Police Commissioner (long overdue), and investigations that found institutionalized racism and misogyny in the Met.
Another example is the 'Kill the Bill' protests, which were protests held against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which was going through Parliament, which essentially wanted to give the police greater powers to suppress peaceful protests and dish out ten year prison sentences for causing a public nuisance. This came off the back of environmental groups blocking roads to protest the government's inaction on climate change.
Protests to oppose the bill led to a riot in Bristol where a police station was vandalized, and a later protest which was cracked down upon with violence. I remember seeing a clip on Twitter of a police officer bashing a woman in the face with his riot shield.
I’m sure he would have been fine if he just complied.
He was injured in an inmate-involved stabbing
It shouldn't have but I'm not going to cry about it.
Should it have happened? No. Two wrongs don't make a right, and all that. Prison shouldn't be dangerous for inmates, no matter what they've done.
Am I upset to hear that the personification of "ACAB" got stabbed in prison? Also no.
Yeah it's one of those weird situational things. He definitely deserves to be in prison, and hard to argue against the stabbability, but when you do one at the same time as the other it seems wrong somehow
In this thread: vicious assholes
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a sharpened melted toothbrush, is a good guy with a sharpened melted toothbrush.
We should teach our children to use sharpened metal toothbrushes to keep them safe.
I’m just glad he survived. Death is an escape he doesn’t deserve yet. He’s got many more years of “fun” to look forward to.
While I don't particularly rejoice at the idea of anyone getting stabbed, I also can't possibly shed a tear for this guy.
I think it's safe to enjoy this particular pig getting stuck
In November 2022, an inmate at the facility’s low-security prison camp pulled out a gun and attempted to shoot a visitor in the head. The weapon, which the inmate shouldn’t have had ....
Well, that seems a bit obvious.
Just to take a jab at the US from a European perspective...
You don't have the right to bear arms in prison? I thought guns were sacred in the US!?
Careful, I'm sure there's some asswipe from where I grew up who wants to throw a bunch of guns in and walk away to let them "sort it out" or some shit. If you go redneck enough reality begins to satirize satire.
Yeah, nothing in the second amendment says they shouldn't have guns.
Lmao :)
You should read the text of our 13th amendment.
Well now he has felt the fear of death from the violence of another person too.
Ohh so this is why murderers should go to maximum security instead of medium.
Particularly vicious and unrepentant murderers who killed a man in broad daylight as his gang cheered.
Probably shouldnt have murdered Floyd over 20 bucks.
Wow, I'm soooo surprised an ex-officer got stabbed in prison. Who could've seen this coming?
The guy who stabbed him.
It's kinda freeing to be done with the disney channel ass idea that you should never celebrate others' misfortune. It lets headlines like this be heartwarming instead of disappointing
That people are being stabbed in prison is an indictment on the barbarity of our prison system, so this should still piss you off.
I think for many people it’s probably the “just desserts” factor of our barbaric system hurting somebody who was a very barbaric cog in that very system.
I mean they basically just told you that they're a sociopath, so I don't think they care.
Not when it's some asshat that killed a man for a bounced check. He pleaded for his life and called out for his mother. Fuck Derek. That dude can be stabbed 1 million times to teach other officers they aren't above the laws they choose to preserve. He put his own law on full display. He reaped what he sewed.
The barbarity of the US prison system is a feature, not a bug. Americans really seem to love exorbitant punishments, awfully similar to medieval Europe. Perhaps in a few centuries your culture will reach modern human rights standards.
Not this time, kiddo. Bad man gets bad treatment.
Yea but do you realize how half those people got sent to prison in the first place? Besides petty non violent crimes those in that group I don't count unless they get violent in prison as a result of prison itself. I mean I agree should havengot stabbed but there's a reason most are in prison.
Not a single person could have seen this coming
Maybe the guy who stabbed him?
Thoughts and prayers
Agreed but I'm not going to be sad for him. I'm sad for the unjustly jailed ppl that have to go through that.
When I was a teenager, I sat down and wrote out a list of rules for myself. One of which was "Act as would choose to when lying in bed later that night." Meaning, don't do something you'll regret a few hours from now.
I didn't feel the need to write that as "Don't do anything that'll get you shivved by a fellow inmate."
And apparently neither did Chauvin.
It's one of those fundamental rules in life. Don't piss off the person making your food. Don't piss off the person doing work in your house with power tools. Don't piss off the doctor right before a surgery.
I'd say he deserves to have someone kneel on his neck for 9 minutes or so, not a stabbing
You're right, he doesn't deserve to be stabbed, he deserves to be choked out until he passes out.
Oh you're the authority on shit-tier people, eh? Yeah I believe that.
keeping people in cages is wrong. I think the stabby-stab is justice, here, and we can stop paying for his room and board and 24hour babysitting staff.
Sucks to suck
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Nothing to see here - NHI.
Sadly, he’s going to be okay.
No no, that’s a good thing. You don’t want him having an easy way out. Fucker needs to serve his full sentence, then die.
Oh no!
Why is he in Arizona?
With federal prison they send them to whichever has the least overcrowding/most staff on hand. They also take into account a bunch of other things, like how much of a risk the prisoner is for committing violence, mental or physical health requirements, etc, and send them to whichever one is best equipped to deal with the specific needs.
Nobody should celebrate this. He's got in sentence, there's no need to rub it in and make him suffer more, it doesn't help anyone. You can argue that he got off easy and should be in jail for longer, but wishing for his death in prison is needlessly cruel and short-sighted.
Yes there is. Make an example. Make these cops so terrified of prison they clean up their acts or retire from the force.
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It must be hellish to be so notorious, under constant threat, probably spening the rest of your life that way. No rehabilitation, no hope. An abnormally high suicide rate amongst the inmates of this type wouldn't be a surprise.
My thoughts and prayers go to the person who had to clean up the mess; Otherwise, this is just a taste of what he deserves.
Neat
He ded?
Wait I thought Christmas was a month away but we're already getting presents?
Total cumskin death
America is an endless parade of horrors, each worse than the last.
Not all heroes wear capes
Cool. Somebody do it again.
fuckin took you long enough. i was starting to lose faith in the prison system
I don't feel bad for the guy, but I don't celebrate this sort of vigilante justice, either. Prisoners should be safe from other prisoners. Prison is not meant to be torture, and recidivism is a massive problem in the United States. Chauvin will have 20 years to contemplate his crimes, and treating him and every other prisoner will only reinforce their criminal proclivities.
American prisons ARE meant for torture. Don't get it twisted.
If they were for rehabilitation or treatment, then we would see to that, societally. But we don't.
This is a small piece of why our justice system is so absolutely fucked.
naw. not really. Prisons are meant to provide cheap domestic labor to the corporations running them. it's all profits.
i think you’re responding to a normative statement by making a descriptive statement.
for those unaware, here’s a quick explanation from wikipedia: a normative statement is “meant to talk about the world as it should be”, while a descriptive statement is “meant to describe the world as it is”.
So much this man. Guy was an asshole, but he and everyone else should be safe in prison.
Let's start with making everyone else safe, then.
Very glad this is currently the top comment. I was worried I’d run into a comment thread cheering for violence that simply shouldn’t have happened.
The idea of "not killing" and "I wish he was dead" can't seem live in most people's head. I think he's human waste, he should be dead, and I wouldn't have lamented his death. BUT!!! I don't want him to die and I don't want someone to kill him.
Yeah dude is a piece of shit, but it's a bit disheartening seeing people cheer on stuff like this.
We don't know what happened. He might have ran his mouth and found out he wasn't a protected class anymore.
That doesn't really change anything.
I agree with your broad sentiment that prisoners should feel safe in prison. However, this specific instance, I call (delayed) karma.
I don't think it's possible to keep humans from harming each other if they want to
That is literally the point of prisons.