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Ex-Officer Derek Chauvin, Convicted In The 2020 George Floyd Killing, Was Stabbed In Prison
According to a person familiar with the situation, another prisoner stabbed Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of murdering George Floyd, on Friday at a federal prison in Arizona.
The incident took place at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a medium-security prison with numerous security flaws and staffing shortages. The individual was not authorized to disclose the details of the attack publicly and talked to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
The Bureau of Prisons verified Friday that an inmate was assaulted at FCI Tucson at approximately 12:30 p.m. local time. The department said in a statement that responding workers confined the event and administered “life-saving measures” before transporting the inmate, who was not identified, to a hospital for additional care and evaluation.
According to the Bureau of Prisons, no personnel were wounded, and the FBI was alerted. Visitation at the prison, which houses approximately 380 convicts, has been suspended.
Messages were left with Chauvin’s lawyers and the FBI seeking comment.
The stabbing of Chauvin is the second high-profile attack on a federal prisoner in the previous five months. Larry Nassar, a notorious sports doctor, was stabbed by a fellow inmate in a federal prison in Florida in July.
It is also the second significant event at the Tucson federal prison in less than a year. An inmate at the facility’s low-security prison camp pulled out a gun and attempted to kill a visitor in the head in November 2022. The weapon, which the inmate should not have had, malfunctioned, but no one was injured.
Chauvin, 47, was transferred from a maximum-security Minnesota state prison to FCI Tucson in August 2022 to serve a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights as well as a 2212-year state term for second-degree murder.
Eric Nelson, Chauvin’s lawyer, had fought to keep him out of the general population and away from other offenders, anticipating that he would be a target. Chauvin was placed in solitary confinement in Minnesota “largely for his own protection,” Nelson stated in court papers last year.
Chauvin’s appeal of his murder conviction was denied by the United States Supreme Court last week. Separately, Chauvin is attempting to have his federal guilty plea overturned, saying that fresh evidence reveals he did not cause Floyd’s death.
Ex-Officer Derek Chauvin, Convicted In George Floyd’s Killing, Was Stabbed In Prison
Floyd, a Black man, died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, a white man, placed a knee on his neck for 912 minutes on the street outside a convenience shop where Floyd was suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill.
A bystander video captured Floyd’s dying sobs of “I can’t breathe.” His death sparked worldwide protests, some of which became violent and compelled a national confrontation with police brutality and racism.
Three other former policemen who were present at the time of Floyd’s death received shorter state and federal penalties for their roles in his death.
Chauvin’s stabbing comes as the federal Bureau of Prisons has come under heightened criticism in recent years following the suicide of wealthy billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in a federal prison in 2019. After Nassar’s stabbing and “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s death at a federal medical center in June, it’s just another example of the agency’s inability to keep even its most high-profile offenders safe.
An ongoing AP investigation has revealed significant, previously unreported vulnerabilities within the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department’s largest law enforcement agency, with over 30,000 personnel, 158,000 inmates, and an annual budget of approximately $8 billion.
Ex-Officer Derek Chauvin, Convicted In George Floyd’s Killing, Was Stabbed In Prison
AP research has exposed extensive sexual abuse and other criminal behavior by staff, as well as dozens of escapes, chronic violence, deaths, and significant staffing shortages that have hampered responsiveness to emergencies such as inmate assaults and suicides.
Colette Peters, Director of the Bureau of Prisons, was appointed last year to overhaul the crisis-plagued organization. She promised to modernize employment methods and increase transparency while underlining that the agency aims “to make good neighbors, not good inmates.”
In September, Peters testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, touting her actions to improve troubled jails and beef up internal affairs investigations. She told a House Judiciary subcommittee earlier this month that recruiting had increased and new hires were outnumbering retirements and other exits.
However, Peters has infuriated MPs who claim she broke her vow to be truthful and upfront with them. Senators chastised her in September for making them wait more than a year for written answers and stating she couldn’t answer basic questions regarding agency operations, such as how many correctional officers are on duty.
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Canadian Man Arrested for TikTok Video That Threatened Trudeau
A TikTok video that went live earlier this week has led to a Toronto man facing charges of threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Andrew Marshall, 61, is facing two counts of uttering threats.
On Friday afternoon, the Ontario Court of Justice granted him bail with a surety and restrictions after the RCMP charged him on Wednesday.
Following Monday’s upload to TikTok, CBC Toronto conducted its own independent investigation of the video. Marshall vehemently opposes what he perceives as restrictions on free expression in Canada in it.
“I get them taken down all the time— I make videos — or all my comments, that are just simple comments,” Marsh says in the TikTok. “It’s just getting ridiculous, Marshall said.”
According to the CBC more and more people are threatening politicians. The commissioner of the RCMP has hinted that further measures may be necessary to ensure their safety.
In the TikTok video, Marshall explains in great detail how he would brutally assassinate Trudeau and Freeland “if it was up to him.”
Marshall attacks multiple groups throughout the roughly 11-minute TikTok video, including the media, Muslims, migrants, and the police who defend the government.
Among Marshall’s bail terms are the following: he must not communicate with Trudeau or Freeland; he must not use the internet to make social media posts or comments; he must not own any weapons; and he must not apply for a firearms permit.
During the bail hearing, the prosecution provided all of the evidence that is often not published.
Nate Jackson, Marshall’s attorney, stressed his client’s liberties and privileges as a Canadian in an email message.
“He has the right to freedom of speech, the right to reasonable bail and the right to a fair trial,” he said. “Having secured his release from custody, we will continue to defend Mr. Marshall’s Charter rights as his case proceeds.”
Neither Freeland’s nor the prime minister’s office would comment on the allegations, according to the CBC.
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Canada’s Unemployment Rate Hits its Highest Point Since 2017
As the job market remains dismal, the national unemployment rate in Canada has risen to its highest point since 2017. This has led some analysts to question whether the Bank of Canada should be reducing interest rates more quickly.
In spite of a net gain of 22,000 jobs, Statistics Canada reported on Friday that the unemployment rate increased to 6.6% from 6.4% the previous month. The rise was due to an uptick in part-time employment and a fall in full-time employment.
Outside of the pandemic years, the national unemployment rate has reached its highest position since May 2017, according to StatCan.
Rapid population expansion in Canada has increased the overall labour pool, but the country’s unemployment rate has persisted in rising.
The summer job market was especially tough for students, according to StatCan. Not including the pandemic, the unemployment rate among students going back to school in the autumn was 16.7 percent, which is the highest level since 2012.
Two days after the Bank of Canada dropped interest rates for the third time in a row, reducing borrowing costs to alleviate economic pressure, the most recent reading of the Canadian job market follows suit.
According to TD Bank economist Leslie Preston, who wrote a note on Friday, the central bank is “giving the OK” to keep dropping rates due to the bad August jobs report. Preston predicts two more quarter-point decreases at the remaining decisions this year.
According to CIBC senior economist Andrew Grantham, there are indications that the labour market is quickly contracting more than initially thought, since the unemployment rate is nearly two percentage points greater than the record low of 4.9% in June 2022.
“Due to this, we believe the Bank should be contemplating a quicker rate of reductions in order to bring interest rates to less restrictive levels,” he informed clients in a letter on Friday morning.
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US Job Growth Falls Short of Expectations: Economy Struggles Under High Interest Rates
Last month, job growth in the United States was weaker than predicted, prompting concerns that the world’s largest economy is beginning to struggle under the weight of increased interest rates.
The Labour Department said that employers added 142,000 jobs in August, which was less than the nearly 160,000 economists predicted. It also stated that job gains over the preceding two months were weaker than expected.
However, the jobless rate went down to 4.2%, down from 4.3% in July.
The report is one of the most important indicators of the US economy and arrives at a vital time, as voters consider presidential candidates for the November election and the US central bank contemplates its first interest rate decrease in four years.
Analysts said the latest statistics kept the Federal Reserve on pace for a rate drop at its meeting this month, but did little to answer worries about the trajectory of the US economy or how much of a cut it should make.
“There has rarely been such a make-or-break number; unfortunately, today’s jobs report does not completely resolve the recession debate,” said Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management.
Soaring prices in 2022 caused the Federal Reserve to hike its key lending rate to 5.3%, a nearly 20-year high.
Faced with increased borrowing costs for homes, vehicles, and other debt, the economy has slowed, helping to alleviate pressures that were boosting inflation but exacerbating market concerns.
As inflation has fallen to 2.9% in July, the Fed is under pressure to decrease interest rates to prevent additional economic deceleration.
Although job increases in August fell short of expectations, they were greater than in July, when a slowdown aroused anxieties and triggered several days of stock market volatility.
Last month, construction and health-care firms hired the most, while manufacturing and retailers laid off employees.
Ms Shah stated that the data in Friday’s report was mixed, but provided enough concerning indicators that the Fed should make a larger cut.
“On balance, with inflation pressures subdued, there is no reason for the Fed not to err on the side of caution and frontload rate cuts,” she told reporters.
Others, however, felt the advances were just steady enough to warrant a 0.25 percentage point decrease, as markets had long projected – though this could signal more cuts than expected in the coming months.
Paul Ashworth, Capital Economics’ senior North America economist, predicted that the Fed’s decision will be “close run.”
“The labour market is clearly experiencing a marked slowdown,” he said, adding that the new statistics were “overall still consistent with an economy experiencing a soft landing rather than plummeting into recession”.
Concerns about the economy are a major issue in the US election.
According to polls, a majority of Americans feel the US is in a recession, despite healthy 2.5% growth last year.
Donald Trump has declared that the economy is headed for a “crash,” and his team instantly latched on the latest data to criticise Vice President Kamala Harris, publishing a press release titled “warning lights flash as Kamala’s economy continues to weaken.”
Democrats have defended their performance, claiming that the United States survived the pandemic and inflation better than many other countries.
They believe the slowdown is a sign that the economy is returning to a more sustainable rate of growth following the post-pandemic boom.
“Although hiring has slowed, the US job market continues to generate solid job gains and wage growth that is consistently beating inflation,” the White House Council of Economic Advisors stated in a blog.
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