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Shocking new details emerged about the attempted murder of Derek Chauvin, America’s most high-profile inmate. Last Friday, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times in the library by another inmate. The assailant has been identified as John Turcak, 52, who has already served 27 years of a 30-year sentence and is described as a member of the Mexican mafia and, allegedly, an FBI informant. The complaint states Turcak initially denied wanting to kill Chauvin, and then the Mexican mafia member waived his Miranda rights when an FBI agent arrived to interview him. The FBI’s involvement raises questions, as the agency typically participates in prison murders when there is an order, if the perpetrator or victim is still informing, or in both scenarios. The complaint claims Turcak confessed to wanting to murder Chauvin on Black Friday to symbolically avenge Black Lives Matter.
The discussion challenges the plausibility of a Mexican mafia member, who has historically preyed on Black inmates and operated within prison racial groupings, acting as a social-justice warrior to avenge Black Lives Matter. The transcript notes Turcak is listed as white and of Croatian origin, which raises questions about his supposed diversity within the Mexican mafia. It also notes Turcak’s sudden relocation to a new federal prison and questions the purpose of this move. Turcak’s history with the FBI is described as significant: he flipped on the Mexican mob in the late 1990s, helping the FBI lock up more than 40 fellow gangsters, and admitted committing crimes while working as an undercover informant, though he claimed to the sentencing judge that “I didn’t commit those crimes for kicks. I did them because I had to if I wanted to stay alive.”
Liz Collins, who produced the documentary “Fall of Minneapolis” about the death of George Floyd, joins the discussion. She describes Chauvin’s stabbing as occurring eight days after their film’s release, noting that Chauvin described being attacked from behind and stabbed repeatedly with a makeshift knife while he was in a media center making copies. Questions are raised about the guards’ supervision and Chauvin’s current health, as he uses a walker and the full extent of his injuries remains unclear. The timing is deemed suspicious, with claims that the only person to receive an update on Chauvin’s condition before his family was Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who confirmed Chauvin’s stability to the media.
The conversation critiques the choice of Black Friday as the alleged symbolic date and suggests it would be more fitting to reference Martin Luther King Day, the anniversary of George Floyd’s death, or Floyd’s birthday. The claim that the symbolically chosen date was connected to Black Lives Matter and a “black hand symbol” attributed to the Mexican mafia is described as rambling and not clearly coherent. The discussion concludes with acknowledgment of the evolving narrative surrounding Chauvin’s stabbing and the FBI’s involvement.