BIG SPRINGS, Texas – Four years after choking George Floyd to death and setting off race riots in Minneapolis and other cities, former police officer Derek Chauvin, a white man, has been moved to a Texas prison. Chauvin, age 48, had been at an Arizona prison where a fellow inmate stabbed and critically wounded him. The prison stabbing was in November. Chauvin’s attorney urged earlier that he be segregated from other prisoners for his own safety, but he wasn’t. The stabbing was at the high-security 1,200-inmate federal prison in Tucson, Arizona. Chauvin’s new home is 650 miles away at the low-security 1,000-inmate Big Springs prison. Chauvin is serving a 22-1/2 year sentence.
