Posted on 12/01/2023 10:15:05 PM PST by RandFan
A US prison inmate has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd.
Prosecutors said ex-gang member John Turscak used an improvised blade to knife Chauvin 22 times on 24 November at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona.
Chauvin survived the attack and was said to be in a stable condition.
He is serving multiple sentences for Floyd's death, which triggered nationwide protests and rioting.
Turscak, a former member of a Mexican Mafia gang, allegedly targeted Chauvin in the prison's law library at lunchtime. He later said that he had been considering killing Chauvin for about a month because of his status as a high-profile inmate.
He told correctional officers he would have killed Chauvin had they not reacted quickly, but later denied to FBI agents he had wanted to take the former officer's life, according to court papers.
Turscak, 52, told FBI agents he attacked Chauvin on Black Friday - as the day after US Thanksgiving is known - as a symbolic connection to Black Lives Matter and the Black Hand symbol linked with the Mexican Mafia, according to prosecutors.
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Hard to convince me this wasn’t a paid hit.
Who paid the hitman to do it?
“ And a WHITE CROATIAN to boot!!”
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Supposedly. But in physical appearance he could pass for Mexican.
https://florida.arrests.org/Arrests/John_Turscak_7190001/
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