Dec. 28, 2023 - The Tucker Carlson Show
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| One of the great moral atrocities in the last several years was taking place right before us, and very few were remarking upon it. | ||
| And it has to do with Derek Chauvin. | ||
| He's the Minneapolis cop who became famous Memorial Day 2020 when George Floyd died. | ||
| Chauvin is now serving 21 years in federal prison for murder, for killing George Floyd. | ||
| The problem is, he did not murder George Floyd. | ||
| And we know that conclusively... | ||
| Because the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on George Floyd confirmed he was not asphyxiated. | ||
| He was not choked to death. | ||
| He most likely died of a drug OD. He had fatal levels of fentanyl in his system. | ||
| And that's been known for some time, though again, ignored. | ||
| Ignored to the extent that, well, Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and sent to prison. | ||
| And then on November 24th of this year, right after Thanksgiving, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by another inmate with an improvised knife. | ||
| Now, the man who stabbed him is a known FBI informant. | ||
| Derek Chauvin is now out of the hospital and back in Tucson. | ||
| He is alive. | ||
| He's still in prison. | ||
| Gregory Erickson is his lawyer and joins us now to discuss this case. | ||
| Mr. Erickson, thank you so much for coming on. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you for having us on. | ||
| First of all, how is your client? | ||
| And if you don't mind, news reports haven't said very much about what exactly happened. | ||
| Would you tell us what you know? | ||
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Well, I can tell you what we know, and it's not a tremendous amount. | |
| Everything, the only first-hand reports I'm getting are from his family. | ||
| Even though my partner Bill Mormon and I are his attorneys for his appeal and perhaps for some post-trial activities, we... | ||
| Attempted to contact the Tucson Federal Institution on numerous occasions and were rebuffed. | ||
| My partner, Bill Moorman, has a contact at the prison that he had been working with throughout the appeal to get a hold of Derek for various things. | ||
| And basically, after the stabbing, he went dark. | ||
| What we do know, and this is from the family... | ||
| May I interrupt you? | ||
| Is a prison allowed to prevent an inmate... | ||
| In the middle of an appeals process from speaking to his lawyers. | ||
| I didn't know that was legal. | ||
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No. | |
| And they're not. | ||
| They're not allowed to keep him. | ||
| But they didn't keep him from my partner during the appeal process. | ||
| It was really only after the stabbing that basically the family and the lawyers were shut out for a period of over 48 hours. | ||
| And so what we know is from... | ||
| Derek reporting to his family members about what happened. | ||
| Basically, he was in the law library. | ||
| And how he was allowed to be in the law library with other prisoners, I don't know. | ||
| I'm not familiar with the inner workings of federal prison, but I would think that somebody as high profile as Derek probably shouldn't be allowed to be in there unsupervised. | ||
| But he was in there supposedly unsupervised. |
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