Chauvin, who was convicted in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, was allegedly stabbed with an “improvised knife” Nov. 24 while in the law library at Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, by inmate John Turscak, 52, according to a criminal complaint.
Kind of sad to see the number of people celebrating his injury. His actions are reprehensible, but he has be sentenced and should be able to carry out that sentence without the threat of violence and death. This is partially the reason people who go to prison come out worse than when they went in.
I’m not gonna celebrate, but i’m not gonna mourn either. This whole chain of events happened because he deliberately chose to abuse another human being while in a position of authority
Absolutely. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel bad for him at all. I do feel bad for the good people who are incarcerated who are victims of our prison system.
“Good people” who were incarcerated? Unless you’re trying to carve out that actual innocent people were incarcerated I don’t think the general prison population were good people. Now, I say that with the caveat that plenty of people get screwed by overzealous prosecutors, minimum sentence rules, or whatever, or that prison is warehousing people and has fuckall to do with actual reform. But you generally don’t wind up in prison if you’re a good person.
It’s worth mourning that someone in the custody of the state isn’t being protected from attack. For every evil cop getting stabbed there’s a ton more people (some of whom are innocent) who are subject to the same negligence and cruelty in the system.
That’s literally what happened when he murdered his victim though. Maybe the cruelty he’s facing will be a wake-up call to all the other criminals with a badge out there.
Fuck this guy. I’m not saying it’s not sad how bad our system is… It’s a fucking travesty. But fuck this guy.
He killed a man in a horrific and truly awful way. He had PLENTY of time to feel regret for his actions while he was fucking doing them and everyone was screaming at him that he was killing someone. He is now suffering under the exact same system that has destroyed so many lives. Lives he had a hand in destroying previously due to being a cop.
He had plenty of chances. Fuck him. I hope he suffers everyday for the rest of his miserable life.
I refuse to give that disgusting piece of shit the same respect that I give to people. He didn’t do it for others? Fuck giving it to him.
He sat on a man and now he’ll shit in a bag
Agreed. I understand the flippancy with him in particular, but prisons should not be a place where your life is in danger. Think of the other inmates, not just him. There are lots of inmates who can be reformed, but living in an environment that is so dangerous makes that much less likely. Sucks all around.
it’s a sad world where a cop kills a man in the street just because he can i reckon
Was that intentionally a Fiona Apple reference?
i wouldn’t know how to make one of those if i wanted to
I might be wrong, but the reason (good or bad) is people don’t feel the judgement was actually just?
He was punished but it’s only 22 years…and they’re still trying to appeal it . And I remember it being messy and after a lot of outcry.
This isn’t meant to justify it, but I do think that you could definitely see why people would not be happy with the situation.
Like I definitely understand that people should feel safe in prison, but I think there’s a lot of things about the situation people disagree on.
I don’t think it’s appropriate to put a “but” after “people should feel safe in prison”. It implies that there are people who do not deserve safety while incarcerated.
We’re talking about a cop. He’s not people to start with but especially with what he’s done.
He doesn’t deserve safety as he is part of the reason why so many people suffer in prisons and have their lives ruined. I will do nothing other than cheer as every ounce of his life is shredded in front of him until his life is as empty as he made Chauvins.
But that’s a revenge fantasy. And cops are still people. What we want is “harm reduction”. Harm reduction was accomplished when his gun, badge and freedom were taken away, and (hopefully) a message was sent to other police officers to cause them to think twice before murdering people.
They don’t have to be happy about the situation, they just have to ask themselves honestly if more prison stabbings is a good thing or a bad thing, and maybe explain why they trust inmates to make the judgement of who does and does not get stabbed.
The whole argument literally has no more depth than “Fuck that guy”. I feel like these people would be justifying drunk drivers if Chauvin had been run down by one.
It’s cathartic to call a spade a spade
The same system he was responsible for sending people into as part of his daily work, assuming they were still alive.
I agree. But I’m also thrilled to see that prisons are equal-opportunity shitholes for the demographics the powers try to imprison, and their own lackeys. Maybe this will shed enough light on how terrible prisons are that Americans collectively give a shit and try to fix them?
That would be brilliant, but I just can’t see it happening. The right have consistently opposed any kind of reform and clearly want the prison system to punish people through rape, abuse and violence.
They’d obvious love to get one of their favourite state executioners out of that situation, but they’re not going to fix the system for millions of people – most of whom are poor, part of a minority group and therefore undesirables – to make it happen.
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Lol it absolutely is not sad, it is justice served hot and fresh with a side of gravy. He does not deserve any pity or mercy and should have been executed instead of imprisoned in the first place.
Hopefully the next inmate will slice his throat or hit a major artery.