Tucker Carlson addressed one of “the great moral atrocities” taking place as he looked into the case of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chavin.
In a segment of “Tucker Carlson Uncensored,” the former Fox News host aimed a spotlight on Chavin, who is currently serving a 21-year term in prison for the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The former cop returned to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, earlier this month after a stint in the hospital following an attack by a fellow inmate who stabbed him 22 times on November 24.
“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,” Carlson warned in the caption of his video posted on X.
“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 with Derek Chauvin, he’s the Minneapolis cop who became famous Memorial Day 2020 when George Floyd died,” Carlson began the segment that aired Thursday.
“Chauvin is now serving 21 years in federal prison for murder, for killing George Floyd,” he added. “The problem is he did not murder George Floyd.”
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. pic.twitter.com/jFm4YMOnGK
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 28, 2023
“And we know that conclusively because the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on George Floyd confirmed he was not as asphyxiated, he was not choked to death,” Carlson continued, noting that Floyd reportedly “had fatal levels of fentanyl in his system.”
“And that’s been known for some time though, again, ignored,” he said, explaining how Chauvin was convicted and sent to prison.
Carlson recounted the stabbing of Chauvin in prison, and that “the man who stabbed him is a known FBI informant,” referring to reports that John Turscak, 52, was a former member of a high-level Mexican Mafia gang and “was an FBI informant in 1997, providing information about his gang as well as recordings of conversations between him, members, and associates,” according to Fox News.
Carlson welcomed Chauvin’s attorney, Gregory Erickson who said he has been unable to get full reports on the status of his client from prison officials and has relied on Chauvin’s family members for updates.
“Well, I can tell you what we know and it’s not a tremendous amount,” Erickson replied.
“We attempted to contact the Tucson Federal Institution on numerous occasions and were rebuffed,” he told Carlson. “My partner, Bill Morman 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.”
Carlson interjected to ask, “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,” he added, to which the attorney replied, “No.”
“They’re not allowed to keep him but they didn’t keep him from my partner during the appeal process,” he explained.
“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,” Erickson continued.
“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,” the attorney noted. “But he was in there supposedly unsupervised and another inmate with an improvised knife, attacked him from behind and stabbed him 22 times.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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