The former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd and was stabbed in prison by a fellow inmate Friday is expected to survive the attack, officials have told media outlets.
O'Hara told KSTP that Chauvin was in stable condition from what his agency's federal law enforcement partners had reported to him. The US prisons bureau, which has custody of Chauvin, has only said that an unnamed person incarcerated at a lockup in Tucson was hospitalized after being assaulted Friday afternoon.
Chauvin, 47, earned international notoriety after pressing a knee on the neck of Floyd for 9 minutes outside a Minneapolis convenience store on 25 May 2020. Floyd, who is Black, had been suspected of trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill to the store, prompting a call to police which Chauvin, who is white, answered. Floyd's death ignited worldwide street protests against police brutality and racism.
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