The stabbing on Friday of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020, at a special unit inside a Tucson, Ariz., prison is the latest in a series of attacks against high-profile inmates in the troubled, short-staffed federal Bureau of Prisons.
The assault comes less than five months after Larry Nassar, the doctor convicted of sexually abusing young female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times at the federal prison in Florida.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an inmate at the Tucson prison was stabbed around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, though the bureau did not identify Mr. Chauvin, 47, by name.
The agency said in a statement that the inmate required “life-saving measures” before being rushed to a hospital emergency room nearby.
The office of Keith Ellison, the Minnesota attorney general who prosecuted the former police officer, identified the inmate as Mr. Chauvin.
Persons:
Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Larry Nassar, James Bulger, Whitey, Jeffrey Epstein, Chauvin, Keith Ellison
Organizations:
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Locations:
Minneapolis, Tucson, Ariz, Florida, Boston, Minnesota