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Dec. 28, 2023 - The Tucker Carlson Show
03:07
Tucker Carlson - Derek Chauvin is serving 21 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Someone just tried to murder him. If they'd do this to him, they'd do it to you.
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Derek Chauvin, convicted in 2020 for George Floyd’s death despite a fentanyl-overdose autopsy, now faces a 21-year sentence after a November 24, 2023, prison attack by FBI informant inmate who stabbed him 22 times. His lawyer, Gregory Erickson, reports prison officials delayed legal access for 48 hours post-attack, exposing systemic failures in protecting high-profile inmates like Chauvin—suggesting retribution risks aren’t just political but institutional. [Automatically generated summary]

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Derek Chauvin's Unsupervised Prison Stay 00:03:07
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
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.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you for having us on.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
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?
unidentified
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...
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
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.
unidentified
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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