The complaint alleges that while incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Tucson, John Turscak, 52, stabbed Chauvin about 22 times “with an improvised knife,” prosecutors said.
Turscak was charged with attempted murder, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and assault resulting in serious bodily injury, according to prosecutors.
The investigation in the case was conducted by the FBI.
Attempted murder and assault with intent to commit murder violations each carry maximum penalties of 20 years incarceration, while assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury each carry maximum penalties of 10 years.
Chauvin was expected to survive following the attack last week in a prison in Arizona, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office said earlier.
First time I’m hearing about this.
Chauvin was expected to survive following the attack last week
Damnit.
Yeah, he’s going to survive through a very painful recovery from twenty-two stab wounds.
And then he’ll be put back in prison. With the other prisoners again.
only reason I don’t want him to get stabbed again is because I don’t want anyone else’s life to get ruined by this shit cop. or, more ruined… I guess. I dunno. They’re in prison, so, you know.
Chauvin was not sentenced to be stabbed 22 times. As awful a person as he likely is, I would rather not see extrajudicial killing be praised.
Performing extrajudicial killing is what got him behind bars in the first place, after all. Quite rightly so.
I’m not gonna root for it, but I certainly wouldn’t be upset if someone’s successful
I’ll never wish for someone’s death, but there are a few obituaries I will read with joy.
If anything, it’s better that he lived. To be further painfully reminded.
At least there is less people clamouring for stuff like this and prison rape here, unlike reddit. Crazy people will be ok with sort of thing just because they think someone “deserves” if.
Don’t worry, those type of comments are already here.
People out for blood. At least there’s less of them here than on reddit…
Floyd wasn’t sentenced to death either but one of them was executed by the state anyway
ETA What a person is sentenced to isn’t necessarily what’s right. Famous actual rapist Brock Allen Turner (he goes by Allen Turner now apparently) only got 6 months for violently raping a woman.
Imagine you wake up at 6 AM on a monday morning in May, weather is already warm, drink your coffee, take on your uniform and go to your police job. Approximately 2 hours later, you knee on the neck of a black man doing your usual racism like you did for the past years, nothing special. At 8:20 AM you notice that this time the guy is not moving anymore…
Three years later, you wake up in a prison cell, listening to the command shouted by the corrections officer, walking down the hallway and suddenly getting stabbed by someone 22 times.
That is some Butterfly-Effect shit that you didn’t saw coming when you woke up on that day in may in 2020. He must think a lot about this day. And George. For George it was an even worst day that day in May.
I wonder if Derek is now realizing that the entire system he worked for and upheld only produces violence. It’s not that he shouldn’t be stabbed, but that no one in the justice system should be subject to the violence he himself subjected on others, like Floyd. Truly hosted by his own peitard.
And for that reason, my sympathies are limited.
the entire system he worked for and upheld only produces violence
They all know that already - they just think its a good thing because the pain is inflicted on those they consider the “bad kind” of person.
The reality is that when fascists are confronted by their own violence, they aren’t against the violence, they’re just against it happening to them, because they think they are the “good kind” of person.
While I’m not gonna cry over this garbage person getting hurt, let’s not actively celebrate extrajudicial punishment. Prison is already a fucked up piece of our fucked up “justice” system.
Next you gonna tell me that someone who rapes him would deserve a medal? Because that would be the same energy.
And both are fucked up ways of thinking.
Thank you for saying it.
Justice isn’t getting stabbed in prison 22 times. The same way Justice is kneeling on the neck of a non-violent offender until he is dead.
I’m going to go even further than you and say the director of the prison should face severe consequences (as in, years in jail) for failing to protect a convict.
Prisoners have most of their rights stripped away from them as a punishment. Defending themselves or avoiding situations where violence can happen is not possible for them, and the responsibility for that therefore falls on the people in charge of applying the punishment. Here, the management of the correctional facility.
The guy is already in prison, what are they going to do, put him in prison again?
Dude had no choice, he was coming right at him
