Posted on 12/01/2023 3:36:56 PM PST by heartwood
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An incarcerated former gang member and FBI informant was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbing last week of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at a federal prison in Arizona.
John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson and said he would’ve killed Chauvin had correctional officers not responded so quickly, federal prosecutors said.
Turscak, serving a 30-year sentence for crimes committed while a member of the Mexican Mafia gang, told investigators he thought about attacking Chauvin for about a month because the former officer, convicted of murdering George Floyd, is a high-profile inmate, prosecutors said. Turscak later denied wanting to kill Chauvin, prosecutors said.... Turscak told FBI agents interviewing him after the assault that he attacked Chauvin on Black Friday as a symbolic connection to the Black Lives Matter movement, which garnered widespread support in the wake of Floyd’s death, and the “Black Hand” symbol associated with the Mexican Mafia, prosecutors said.
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Since when do Mexican gangs give a crap about BLM or black people? Usually they are at each other’s throats.
Maybe for the right amount of money or drugs, a “Mexican” gang could at least pretend to be interested in BLM.
Sometimes it is hard to get long enough material to make a good shiv.
The “Mexican Mafia” seems amazingly diverse. Is the white FBI informant LGBTQ, too?
You aren’t the only one who did that...and even with a different picture: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4200623/posts#4
The FBI protected Whitey Bulger when he murdered all those people in Boston. Then they arranged his murder in prison. They are as bad - probably worse - than those in prison. Of course they probably arranged this too.
I used to be proud of this country.
Good reason not to go to prison.
True; I never thought of that.
Just a coincidence, I’m sure./sarc
What kind of POS thought it would be a good idea to put Chauvin in genpop? They wanted him killed.
Of course, this insanity should be expected from “leadership” everywhere.
What kind of special idiot thinks Black Friday has anything at all to do with race? The Croatian dude should be shot for being the world’s biggest idiot. Black Friday refers to bookkeeping and accounting in that retailers typically are able to become profitable for the year on earnings from that single day. So, they are in the black and not in the red. What a dingbat to pick that day to make a statement about Black Lives Matter. Next he will steal all the blackberries in a grocery store or kill a white sheep for saying baa to a black sheep.
Stabbings are uncommon at Lows
Prolly why he wasn’t PC
Terrible stabber. Needs more practice... where do stabbers go to “practice”?
Prison.
I’m a little late to the thread, but I was going to say Ireland or anywhere in the EU.
Why in the world would they put a former police officer in with the general public? Everyone knows they are easy targets exactly like this. Maybe Chauvin’s family should sue the government for knowingly putting him in danger.
Maybe it is a wing for protected prisoners. The one who stabbed him was an FBI informant against the Mexican Mafia. HE would be dead in a regular unit. And maybe he’s afraid of what will happen after he gets out, so he does something to stay in.
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