Former police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of killing George Floyd, has been transferred to a Texas prison

Derek Chauvin has been transferred to a prison in Texas, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons said Tuesday, nine months after the former Minneapolis police officer was convicted in the murder by George Floyd survived a stabbing in prison in Arizona.

KEY QUOTE

“We can confirm that Derek Michael Chauvin was transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Big Spring on August 20, 2024,” a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

WHY IT IS IMPORTANT

Chauvin was stabbed Last year, Chauvin was injured about 22 times while in custody in Tucson, the U.S. Department of Justice said in December. Chauvin was seriously injured but survived.

Chauvin serves 22.5 years in prison for murder after being convicted in April 2021 of killing Floyd, a verdict widely seen as a landmark rebuke of the disproportionate use of police force against Black Americans. He is concurrently serving a 21-year prison sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights.

CONTEXT

Floyd's death in 2020 sparked protests against police brutality and racism worldwide after Chauvin, who is white, knelt on the handcuffed black man's neck for more than eight minutes in a killing captured on cellphone video.

The suspect in the stabbing of Chauvin has been charged with attempted murder and other crimes.

Thomas Lane, a former Minneapolis police officer convicted of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in connection with Floyd's killing, was released from federal prison in Colorado on Tuesday after serving a sentence of more than three years.

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