[AP]

Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd's killing, stabbed in
prison, AP source says

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering
George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a
federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The
Associated Press.

The attack happened at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a
medium-security prison that has been plagued by security lapses and staffing
shortages. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the
attack and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.

The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an incarcerated person was assaulted at
FCI Tucson at around 12:30 p.m. local time Friday. In a statement, the agency
said responding employees contained the incident and performed "life-saving
measures" before the inmate, who it did not name, was taken to a hospital for
further treatment and evaluation.
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rest:
https://apnews.com/article/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-prison-stabbing-f24cde6aa28877d034530c2dc40ef7ea

nah, just like Epstein, he probably stabbed himself

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Oh dear.

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida

Sounds pretty serious--"life-saving" treatment.

Here's what authorities have released so, per USA Today.

STYBLE/Florida
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/24/derek-chauvin-stabbed-prison/71697148007/

Here's Yahoo!'s posting of the latest AP coverage, along with a couple thousand yahoos chiming in with the good, the bad and the ugly comments.

STYBLE/Florida
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-officer-derek-chauvin-convicted-015437046.html

I understand--and even kinda sorta agree with--the authorities in Tucson keeping details of this story from the public, but I cannot fathom what might be prompting them to include the high-profile prisoner's family in the information blackout.

I'm probably being too cynical again, but it does make me wonder if this is more complex than the standard prison-stabbing story.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-officer-derek-chauvin-convicted-021348000.html

There's a new streaming-only documentary about the televised Chavin trial in the wake of the late St. George of Floyd. It's the work of former Minneapolis TV news anchor Liz Collin. The now-muckraker newscaster happens to be wedded to a cop, and in spectacular 21st Century cancel-culture fashion, would soon enough find her Twin Cities career kaput in the aftermath of this cascading saga.

Collin guested during the first hour of today's Dennis Prager Show, the Salem-syndicated talk radio program, and delineates some of the many reasons this entire sad tableau is such a continuing travesty of justice.

A clip aired on cable news is linked below, but the entire radio hour can be heard for free in its entirety--though with frequent audio dropouts on Salem's egregiously-engineered "Prager on Demand" service--recycling in loop every three hours until tomorrow [Tuesday, November 28th] at noon Eastern (at which point it will be replaced by the Tuesday edition of the ever-bumbling broadcaster Prager's show, so catch it while you can). It's easy to access with a few keystrokes, despite the DennisPrager.com website's severely poor design.

And for ONCE, the frequently-fact-fumbling (and often-microphone-clunking) Prager was on his commercial newstalk radio-hosting game! (Typically, most of the often-clueless Prager's shows are painfully redundant* and thus hardly worth a listen...except by those weird types like myself who remain hopelessly addicted to commercial newstalk radio. But this one you may not want to miss.)

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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* And ALSO hindered by his usually-underinformed callers. But THAT'S okay, since the frequent phone-in-number-dispensing Prager daily looks for EVERY excuse to only rarely add caller input amid his 15 weekly, mike-hogging broadcast hours. (Instead, he squanders LOADS of precious airtime, recurrently prattling on about how he he's SOOOO regretful he CAN'T take calls because there's JUST SO MUCH that HE needs to say...and closes out most hour insincerely apologizing to the never-aired callers. But THEN also often even strokes those callers (AND all his thusly-abused listeners) by lamenting that "the most painful part of talk radio hosting is being 'unable' to take calls." [!] And yep, Prager took ZERO callers during his segment with the very articulate Ms. Collin.
==================https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okXBjtOHKhQ

I didn't realize while posting the above--which included my inexcusably sloppy misspelling of now-stabbed prisoner Chauvin's surname--that the entirety of Liz Collin's documentary entitled "The Fall of Minneapolis" is available for free (at least for the time being).

Now, I sure wish the first officer hadn't repeatedly employed the needlessly-coarse gerund "F-ing", but otherwise I didn't see much over-the-top behavior on the officers' parts.

I found this production compellingly presented, factually-grounded AND quite fair to the soon-lionized late Floyd...but you may vigorously disagree, of course. (Meanwhile, many will dismiss the whole shebang simply because they regard Collin as hopelessly biased, being married as she is, to a police officer.)

STYBLE/Florida
============https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com

So this 22-stab-wound attack wasn't spontaneous, but rather quite pre-mediated and planned--to occur on Black Friday, so this Mexican Mafia prisoner (by his own admission) could via his own savagery show solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

How can the media OR the authorities be able to deny this attack is a Federal hate crime?

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/inmate-stabbed-derek-chauvin-22-214324695.html

In <e4918003-5a5d-4382-bf85-9b75e5f72f09n@googlegroups.com> "radioacti...@gmail.com" <radioactiveseattle@gmail.com> writes:

>So this 22-stab-wound attack wasn't spontaneous, but rather quite pre-mediated and planned--to occur on Black Friday, so this Mexican Mafia prisoner (by his own admission) could via his own savagery show solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

>How can the media OR the authorities be able to deny this attack is a Federal hate crime?

fyi, DOJ press release:

justice.gov/usao-az/pr/federal-inmate-charged-attempted-murder-and-other-offenses
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