derek chauvin
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
  • Derek Chauvin, the former cop jailed for killing George Floyd, was stabbed 22 times in prison.
  • The accused attacker told FBI agents he struck on Black Friday in connection to the BLM movement.
  • Black Friday is an annual shopping event with no links to the BLM movement.

A federal inmate accused of stabbing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin gave bizarre rationale for the timing of the attack, federal prosecutors said.

The suspect, John Turscak, told FBI agents that he attacked Chauvin on Black Friday as a symbolic connection to the Black Lives Matter movement, the Associated Press reported.