It has come to light that the prisoner who stabbed former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin did so 22 times.

 

Prosecutors alleged that 52-year-old John Turscak, a former member of the Mexican Mafia, stabbed Chauvin inside a federal jail in Tucson and threatened to kill him if the guards had not arrived so rapidly.

 

As a symbolic nod to the Black Lives Matter movement, investigators believe that he deliberately attacked on Black Friday, Nov. 24.

 

Attempted murder, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and assault causing bodily harm are the current charges against him.

 

 

Turscak, who was convicted of killing black man George Floyd by kneeling on his neck during his arrest and is currently serving a 30-year term for crimes committed while working as an FBI informant, claimed that months before the murder, he had considered stabbing the former police officer.

 

With the “intent to do bodily harm” and “commit murder,” Turscak attacked Chauvin with a “improvised knife,” according to the criminal complaint.

 

He told investigators he chose Black Friday for his attack because it was “symbolic with the Black Lives Matter movement and the ‘Black Hand’ symbol associated with the Mexican Mafia criminal organization,” according to FBI agents who interviewed him on Nov. 26.

 

The attack on the disgraced police officer took place around 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 24 inside the facility’s law library. Officers used pepper spray to subdue Turscak.
Chauvin, who is serving a 22-year sentence for Floyd’s death, was taken to a hospital for “emergency medical treatment,” after employees had to perform “life-saving measures” on him.
Turscak waived his Miranda Rights for his interview with the FBI, where he denied he had intended to kill Chauvin.

 

A lawyer for the criminal was not listed, although he has represented himself on previous occasions.
He has since been moved into an adjacent federal facility, where he remains.