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Derek Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by federal inmate who says he attacked him on Black Friday as symbolic connection to BLM
New York Post ^ | Dec 1, 2023 | Associated Press

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackhand; blm; chauvin; fbiinformant; georgefloyd; informant; johnturscak; mexicanmafia; murdercontract; shiv; stabbing; turscak; waroncops; whohiredhim
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To: heartwood

Since when do Mexican gangs give a crap about BLM or black people? Usually they are at each other’s throats.


41 posted on 12/01/2023 7:26:07 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: heartwood

Maybe for the right amount of money or drugs, a “Mexican” gang could at least pretend to be interested in BLM.


42 posted on 12/01/2023 7:28:06 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Carriage Hill

Sometimes it is hard to get long enough material to make a good shiv.


43 posted on 12/01/2023 7:29:40 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: dragnet2

The “Mexican Mafia” seems amazingly diverse. Is the white FBI informant LGBTQ, too?


44 posted on 12/01/2023 7:34:21 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: dragnet2

You aren’t the only one who did that...and even with a different picture: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4200623/posts#4


45 posted on 12/01/2023 7:38:42 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: neverevergiveup
He’s a FBI informant. Is it just me, or that raise some concerns?

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.

46 posted on 12/01/2023 7:39:39 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Good reason not to go to prison.


47 posted on 12/02/2023 4:30:39 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: piasa

True; I never thought of that.


48 posted on 12/02/2023 5:53:50 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: neverevergiveup

Just a coincidence, I’m sure./sarc


49 posted on 12/02/2023 5:57:50 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

What kind of POS thought it would be a good idea to put Chauvin in genpop? They wanted him killed.


50 posted on 12/02/2023 7:59:34 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Of course, this insanity should be expected from “leadership” everywhere.


51 posted on 12/02/2023 4:27:20 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: heartwood

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.


52 posted on 12/02/2023 4:42:15 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: heartwood

Stabbings are uncommon at Lows

Prolly why he wasn’t PC


53 posted on 12/02/2023 4:45:46 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: null and void

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.


54 posted on 12/02/2023 9:44:52 PM PST by centermass_socrates (Keep it clean, keep it loaded, and keep it handy.)
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To: heartwood

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.


55 posted on 12/03/2023 3:00:53 AM PST by beachn4fun (I do not have to acknowledge your craziness.)
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To: beachn4fun

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.


56 posted on 12/03/2023 7:35:29 AM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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