(Reuters) – Derek Chauvin, the previous Minneapolis police officer convicted within the dying of George Floyd, is predicted to outlive following an assault in a jail in Arizona on Friday, in response to a spokesperson from the Minnesota Lawyer Basic’s workplace.
The Related Press earlier reported Chauvin had been stabbed and severely injured on Friday.
“I’m unhappy to listen to that Derek Chauvin was the goal of violence,” Minnesota Lawyer Basic Keith Ellison mentioned in an emailed assertion on Saturday.
“He was duly convicted of his crimes and, like all incarcerated particular person, he ought to be capable of serve his sentence with out worry of retaliation or violence.
Ellison didn’t give additional particulars.
In an announcement on Sunday, Lawyer Basic’s Workplace spokesperson Brian Evans mentioned relating to Chauvin’s situation: “We’ve got heard that he’s anticipated to outlive.”
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 court docket.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed an unidentified inmate was assaulted on the Federal Correctional Establishment in Tucson, Arizona. It mentioned staff “initiated life-saving measures” for one particular person, who was taken by emergency medical companies to a hospital. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons mentioned it was not offering the title of the sufferer or their medical standing because of privateness causes.
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 9 minutes in a homicide caught on cellphone video.
(Reporting by Hannah Lang in Washington, David Ljunggren in Ottawa and Steve Gorman; Modifying by Caitlin Webber and Josie Kao)