© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses his sentencing listening to and the choose as he awaits his sentence after being convicted of homicide within the dying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021 in a nonetheless imag
By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal inmate was charged on Friday with tried homicide and different offenses for allegedly stabbing Derek Chauvin, the previous Minneapolis police officer convicted within the dying of George Floyd, the U.S. Justice Division stated in a press release.
The criticism alleges that whereas incarcerated at Federal Correctional Establishment Tucson, John Turscak, 52, stabbed Chauvin about 22 occasions “with an improvised knife,” prosecutors stated.
Turscak was charged with tried homicide, assault with intent to commit homicide, assault with a harmful weapon, and assault leading to critical bodily damage, in keeping with prosecutors.
The investigation within the case was carried out by the FBI.
Tried homicide and assault with intent to commit homicide violations every carry most penalties of 20 years incarceration, whereas assault with a harmful weapon and assault leading to critical bodily damage every carry most penalties of 10 years.
Chauvin was anticipated to outlive following the assault final week in a jail in Arizona, the Minnesota Lawyer Common’s workplace stated earlier.
Chauvin is serving a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights, in addition to a concurrent 22-1/2 years for homicide on his conviction in Minnesota state courtroom.
Floyd’s dying in 2020 unleashed protests worldwide in opposition to police brutality and racism after Chauvin, who’s white, knelt on the neck of the handcuffed Black man for greater than eight minutes in a homicide caught on cellphone video.
An lawyer for Turscak was not listed in courtroom information.
