Inmate Charged with Attempted Murder for Stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 Times

An inmate named John Turscak has been charged with attempted murder for stabbing Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, 22 times in the law library at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona. Turscak stated that he would have killed Chauvin if correctional officers had not responded quickly. He claimed that he had been thinking about assaulting Chauvin for about a month due to Chauvin's high-profile status but denied wanting to kill him. Turscak attacked Chauvin on Black Friday as a symbolic connection to the Black Lives Matter movement and the "Black Hand" symbol associated with the Mexican Mafia gang. Chauvin's lawyer had previously advocated for keeping him out of general population due to safety concerns.