Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of George Floyd’s murder, is expected to survive after he was stabbed in prison, the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office said Saturday.
Chauvin was hospitalized Friday following an assault at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution at Tucson. A law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident said Chauvin was seriously injured in the assault.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons said the incident took place at about 12:30 p.m. and “responding employees initiated life-saving measures for one incarcerated individual.”
I also agree there but it’s not really on topic for him getting stabbed. Your frustration is more topical when it happens and the discussion is more about whether he’ll be punished than about preventing people like him from gaining power to begin with. There’re good reasons for those responses too, given the history of police brutality being covered up and that public pressure is genuinely important for ensuring justice, but still.
You make a good point in that reforming positions of power is comparatively rarely spoken about. It’s hard to tell when that’s topical enough for people to comment about it en masse. It becomes a large point when brutality happens, but society isn’t yet sure enough that the brutality will be punished for police reform to truly dominate discussion. At the least though, that discussion does happen, whereas that of prison reform is less common.
Anyway no need to respond cause I think we agree on the important bits, just maybe not on whether talking about prison reform specifically here is necessary. I still believe it is, since prison reform is more on topic than power reform and if it doesn’t happen here it will never happen, but I also strongly agree that power reform is an important conversation to have.