Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd’s killing, stabbed in prison

American prisons ARE meant for torture. Don’t get it twisted.

naw. not really. Prisons are meant to provide cheap domestic labor to the corporations running them. it's all profits.

i think you’re responding to a normative statement by making a descriptive statement.

for those unaware, here’s a quick explanation from wikipedia: a normative statement is “meant to talk about the world as it should be”, while a descriptive statement is “meant to describe the world as it is”.

Let's start with making everyone else safe, then.

The idea of "not killing" and "I wish he was dead" can't seem live in most people's head. I think he's human waste, he should be dead, and I wouldn't have lamented his death. BUT!!! I don't want him to die and I don't want someone to kill him.

That doesn't really change anything.

That is literally the point of prisons.

Oh you..

A shiv in the form of a sharpened toothbrush

Weird thing to say.

How about " Convicted Murderer and disgraced police officer Derek Chauvin", that should keep most of us happy.

Why would we do that? Especially since neither of those have been proven in a court of law.

This person spent a career throwing people into this exact system. Eagerly, if my perception of his past behavior after watching his entire trial is at all representative.

System works as designed.

Yes to both. Keep in mind "understaffed" means lots of things to lots of people.

That prisons aren't basically forced schools and therapy is an atrocity, to me, as an example. It changes the entire concept of what prison is about in ways I find unacceptable

I know a prison guard, not very well but yes we have talked a few times. He was telling me how there is basically no system in place for therapy for them. They see something brutal and they are expected to just come into work the next day which causes PTSD to run rampant.

Messed up.

I'm of the opinion that, while the premise is agreeable it simply isn't possible to rehabilitate police officers.

If someone can be rehabilitated, I believe that implies that they can be unhabilitated. It kinda implies that people aren't inherently bad / don't do bad things without something causing them to. If your dog shits inside because you forgot to take it out, do you punish it? If so, congratulations on being consistent, -ly an asshole.

We had BLM protests here in Britain too, but George Floyd isn't the main reason we've grown to distrust cops.

Two years ago, a serving Metropolitan police officer 'arrested' a young woman who was walking home from her friend's house on the basis of her breaching COVID lockdown guidelines. He then raped and murdered her. The Metropolitan Police then proceeded to brutally crack down upon a peaceful vigil held to mourn her.

Wayne Couzens is thankfully serving life without parole for his sickening crime, and the ladies who were manhandled, tackled down and detained during the vigil have been compensated by the courts. This whole scandal because the catalyst that led to Cressida Dick resigning as the Met Police Commissioner (long overdue), and investigations that found institutionalized racism and misogyny in the Met.

Another example is the 'Kill the Bill' protests, which were protests held against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which was going through Parliament, which essentially wanted to give the police greater powers to suppress peaceful protests and dish out ten year prison sentences for causing a public nuisance. This came off the back of environmental groups blocking roads to protest the government's inaction on climate change.

Protests to oppose the bill led to a riot in Bristol where a police station was vandalized, and a later protest which was cracked down upon with violence. I remember seeing a clip on Twitter of a police officer bashing a woman in the face with his riot shield.

Yeah, this one guy here got a nice twist of karma. Many others though just get stabbed and raped anyway.

Yeah but two wrongs never make a right.

But if people don't suffer in prison how will you make them afraid of committing crimes? /s

Sentence is supposed to be the thing that judge throws at you, and that should be it. The story doesn't tell whether he was stabbed just for being who he is or whether he pissed somebody off. But it's easy to imagine it's the former in this case.

Careful, I'm sure there's some asswipe from where I grew up who wants to throw a bunch of guns in and walk away to let them "sort it out" or some shit. If you go redneck enough reality begins to satirize satire.

Yeah, nothing in the second amendment says they shouldn't have guns.

You should read the text of our 13th amendment.

Lmao :)

I heard he had a criminal record

I think for many people it’s probably the “just desserts” factor of our barbaric system hurting somebody who was a very barbaric cog in that very system.

I mean they basically just told you that they're a sociopath, so I don't think they care.

The barbarity of the US prison system is a feature, not a bug. Americans really seem to love exorbitant punishments, awfully similar to medieval Europe. Perhaps in a few centuries your culture will reach modern human rights standards.

Not when it's some asshat that killed a man for a bounced check. He pleaded for his life and called out for his mother. Fuck Derek. That dude can be stabbed 1 million times to teach other officers they aren't above the laws they choose to preserve. He put his own law on full display. He reaped what he sewed.

Not this time, kiddo. Bad man gets bad treatment.

Yea but do you realize how half those people got sent to prison in the first place? Besides petty non violent crimes those in that group I don't count unless they get violent in prison as a result of prison itself. I mean I agree should havengot stabbed but there's a reason most are in prison.