Alabama News: The former officer found guilty in George Floyd’s murder is transferred to a new jail

Alabama News: The former officer found guilty in George Floyd’s murder is transferred to a new jail

Minneapolis, Minnesota Nearly nine months after being stabbed in a different facility, Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of killing George Floyd, was sent to a federal prison in Texas, the federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Chauvin, 47, is currently being held at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring. In August 2022, he was detained at FCI Tucson in Arizona in order to serve a 22 1/2-year state term for second-degree murder and a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights.

The transfer occurs almost nine months after a former gang member and FBI informant stabbed Chauvin 22 times while he was incarcerated.

Thomas Lane, a different former Minneapolis policeman, who restrained Floyd’s

legs as the man struggled to breathe, was released from federal prison in Colorado on Tuesday, the Bureau of Prisons said. Lane, 41, was serving a three year sentence for aiding and abetting manslaughter.

When Lane pleaded guilty, he admitted that he intentionally helped restrain Floyd in a way that he knew created an unreasonable risk and caused his death. He admitted that he heard Floyd say he couldn’t breathe, knew Floyd fell silent, had no pulse and appeared to have lost consciousness.

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Floyd, 46, passed away in May 2020 as a result of Chauvin, a White guy, pinning him to the ground and pressing a knee to his neck while the Black man insisted on being unable to breathe. Floyd was restrained by the white person Lane. Black man J. Alexander Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back, while Hmong American Tou Thao prevented onlookers from interfering throughout the 9 and a half-minute restraint.