The Tucker Carlson Show - 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.
Aired: 2023-12-28
Duration: 03:07


=== Derek Chauvin's Unsupervised Prison Stay (03:07) ===

[00:00:00]  One of the great moral atrocities in the last several years was taking place right before us, and very few were remarking upon it.
[00:00:06]  And it has to do with Derek Chauvin.
[00:00:07]  He's the Minneapolis cop who became famous Memorial Day 2020 when George Floyd died.
[00:00:12]  Chauvin is now serving 21 years in federal prison for murder, for killing George Floyd.
[00:00:19]  The problem is, he did not murder George Floyd.
[00:00:21]  And we know that conclusively...
[00:00:23]  Because the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on George Floyd confirmed he was not asphyxiated.
[00:00:29]  He was not choked to death.
[00:00:30]  He most likely died of a drug OD. He had fatal levels of fentanyl in his system.
[00:00:34]  And that's been known for some time, though again, ignored.
[00:00:37]  Ignored to the extent that, well, Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and sent to prison.
[00:00:42]  And then on November 24th of this year, right after Thanksgiving, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by another inmate with an improvised knife.
[00:00:50]  Now, the man who stabbed him is a known FBI informant.
[00:00:54]  Derek Chauvin is now out of the hospital and back in Tucson.
[00:00:56]  He is alive.
[00:00:58]  He's still in prison.
[00:01:00]  Gregory Erickson is his lawyer and joins us now to discuss this case.
[00:01:04]  Mr. Erickson, thank you so much for coming on.
[00:01:06]  Thank you.
[00:01:07]  Thank you for having us on.
[00:01:08]  First of all, how is your client?
[00:01:10]  And if you don't mind, news reports haven't said very much about what exactly happened.
[00:01:15]  Would you tell us what you know?
[00:01:16]  Well, I can tell you what we know, and it's not a tremendous amount.
[00:01:20]  Everything, the only first-hand reports I'm getting are from his family.
[00:01:27]  Even though my partner Bill Mormon and I are his attorneys for his appeal and perhaps for some post-trial activities, we...
[00:01:43]  Attempted to contact the Tucson Federal Institution on numerous occasions and were rebuffed.
[00:01:51]  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.
[00:02:01]  And basically, after the stabbing, he went dark.
[00:02:04]  What we do know, and this is from the family...
[00:02:07]  May I interrupt you?
[00:02:09]  Is a prison allowed to prevent an inmate...
[00:02:12]  In the middle of an appeals process from speaking to his lawyers.
[00:02:15]  I didn't know that was legal.
[00:02:17]  No.
[00:02:18]  And they're not.
[00:02:20]  They're not allowed to keep him.
[00:02:21]  But they didn't keep him from my partner during the appeal process.
[00:02:25]  It was really only after the stabbing that basically the family and the lawyers were shut out for a period of over 48 hours.
[00:02:36]  And so what we know is from...
[00:02:40]  Derek reporting to his family members about what happened.
[00:02:45]  Basically, he was in the law library.
[00:02:48]  And how he was allowed to be in the law library with other prisoners, I don't know.
[00:02:53]  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.
[00:03:03]  But he was in there supposedly unsupervised.