Family kept in dark over stabbing of George Floyd’s killer, lawyer says

Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison in Arizona (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

A lawyer for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, said on Saturday that Chauvin’s family has been kept in the dark by federal prison officials after he was stabbed in prison.

The lawyer, Gregory M Erickson, slammed the lack of transparency by the Federal Bureau of Prisons a day after his client was stabbed by another inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, a prison that has been plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages.