I don’t feel bad for the guy, but I don’t celebrate this sort of vigilante justice, either. Prisoners should be safe from other prisoners. Prison is not meant to be torture, and recidivism is a massive problem in the United States. Chauvin will have 20 years to contemplate his crimes, and treating him and every other prisoner will only reinforce their criminal proclivities.
So much this man. Guy was an asshole, but he and everyone else should be safe in prison.
Let’s start with making everyone else safe, then.
No disagreements here.
Very glad this is currently the top comment. I was worried I’d run into a comment thread cheering for violence that simply shouldn’t have happened.
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.
Yeah I cheered when he was convicted and sentenced but I’m not gonna cheer for this
Yeah dude is a piece of shit, but it’s a bit disheartening seeing people cheer on stuff like this.
but I don’t celebrate this sort of vigilante justice, either
We don’t know what happened. He might have ran his mouth and found out he wasn’t a protected class anymore.
That doesn’t really change anything.
It does a little bit, I think.
Yes, our prisons should be safe for those who are confined within them. I agree with that, and that less people should be confined in the first place.
But there is a qualitative difference between “he was stabbed due to being a cop (or due to being THAT cop)” vs “He got into an altercation that resulted in him being stabbed, but which could have happened to anyone.”
I think the kneejerk assumption is that he was targeted, which is worse IMO.
Not that I shed a single tear for the fate of Derek Chauvin, mind you.
How is “that could’ve happened to anyone” any better?
Would you rather be in an unsafe environment where you are taking the same risks as anyone else by being there, or an unsafe environment where you are likely to be specifically and personally targeted for being you?
How is either acceptable?
You’ll have to ask someone who said either was acceptable.
I agree with your broad sentiment that prisoners should feel safe in prison. However, this specific instance, I call (delayed) karma.
American prisons ARE meant for torture. Don’t get it twisted.
If they were for rehabilitation or treatment, then we would see to that, societally. But we don’t.
This is a small piece of why our justice system is so absolutely fucked.
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”.
If we could read we would be very upset.
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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.
Well both those things can be true.
That’s a part of it, yes. It’s the slavery loophole in the 13th amendment.
Less of a loophole, more of an intended feature
Loopholes are things intentionally built into structures with the purpose of allowing something through. I find it weird so many people think loopholes aren’t something intentional.
Never forget, it’s actually legal to enslave prisoners according to the 13th Amendment.
Maybe Chauvin stabbed himself in a state of “excited delirium.”
The important thing is, the inmate investigated himself and decided that he did nothing wrong.
He was probably making some “furtive movements” just before the incident.
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I would have said that there’s no humor to be had here, but I would have been wrong. Twice in one comment.
I’m sorely tempted to start circulating claims about what Chauvin had in his system at the time.
EDIT - Also, this shit:
Chauvin’s stabbing comes as the federal Bureau of Prisons has faced increased scrutiny in recent years following wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s jail suicide in 2019. It’s another example of the agency’s inability to keep even its highest profile prisoners safe after Nassar’s stabbing and “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s suicide at a federal medical center in June.
Oh it’s a problem all of a sudden. Can’t imagine why.
I’m sorely tempted to start circulating claims about what Chauvin had in his system at the time.
A shiv
Oh you…
A shiv in the form of a sharpened toothbrush
Yes. That’s… That’s what that is…
I’m sorely tempted to start circulating claims about what Chauvin had in his system at the time.
Are we certain the wound was caused by a stabbing and not “Incarceration Delirium”? Or maybe it’s a holy miracle stigmata!
Those poor widdle white boys can’t take it!
But who gives a shit if we do it to minorities? Nobody, apparently.
Weird thing to say.
He should have just complied.
I feel this whole case is everything wrong with the justice system (aside from him actually facing consequences). A corrupt cop with a history of violence gets attacked in an overpopulated and understaffed prison where folks are punished instead of rehabilitated.
Right, none of these things should have happened at all. It’s just a negative feedback loop of incompetence and corruption.
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.
Yeah I think people are forgetting this was a cop who actively perpetuated this system. And not even in a “just following orders” sense, he seemed to delight in it.
System works as designed.
Prisons sure cost a lot of money to tax payers. Are you sure they’re understaffed or is the staff just apathetic
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.
Acab
I’d rather they were punished and rehabilitated. Both are necessary.
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.
While it’s easy to not sympathize with a person like that, no inmates should be getting stabbed in prison. It’s still wrong. And still a symptom of the bad justice system in the US.
Guy committed slow murder and set my country on fire. I don’t even know how we would be able to quantify the damage he did. There were BLM protests in countries on different continents. There is now less trust of the police globally, there are were countless riots and deaths and assaults and fires, this mistrust set off cycles of violence and has set race relations back decades. We live in the world now that we rightfully can’t trust our own LEOs and they have hunkered down.
There are zero winners here. We all benefit from a police system that works and has earned the public trust. So yes I will shed zero tears for this man. Because fuck his racist asshole
Police shouldn’t kill unarmed people, but here we are.
Yeah, this one guy here got a nice twist of karma. Many others though just get stabbed and raped anyway.
Maybe we should fix both problems, and having a cop get shanked in the shower or whatever could provide some impetus toward that.
How exactly? Violence always breeds more violence.
Because the little cowards don’t like violence against themselves, silly.
And cops who are supposed to protect people shouldn’t be executing people, but here we are. He himself contributed to the problem he’s facing.
Yeah but two wrongs never make a right.
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It can’t be victimless if there is a victim. There’s no reason to think that someone would have wanted to get themseleves stabbed.
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I think you’re not being logical. We have no reason to suspect he stabbed himself.
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are we sure he didn’t overdose? let’s not jump to conclusions here.
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OMG, I was 3 states away from this, can the fentynal poison me from there? I think I need a long term disability pension ASAP.
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I’m sure he would have been fine if he just complied.
He was injured in an inmate-involved stabbing
Of course this would happen, but yeah, he shouldn’t have been stabbed in prison. I hope that’s obvious to everyone.
Maybe we should reform our prison system so this kind of thing doesn’t happen.
But if people don’t suffer in prison how will you make them afraid of committing crimes? /s
Yeah… because nobody avoided committing a crime because they were afraid of going to prison. /s
I’m confused by your /s. What point are you trying to make?
It shouldn’t have but I’m not going to cry about it.
Should it have happened? No. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and all that. Prison shouldn’t be dangerous for inmates, no matter what they’ve done.
Am I upset to hear that the personification of “ACAB” got stabbed in prison? Also no.
Yeah it’s one of those weird situational things. He definitely deserves to be in prison, and hard to argue against the stabbability, but when you do one at the same time as the other it seems wrong somehow
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.
In this thread: vicious assholes
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a sharpened melted toothbrush, is a good guy with a sharpened melted toothbrush.
We should teach our children to use sharpened metal toothbrushes to keep them safe.
I’m just glad he survived. Death is an escape he doesn’t deserve yet. He’s got many more years of “fun” to look forward to.
While I don’t particularly rejoice at the idea of anyone getting stabbed, I also can’t possibly shed a tear for this guy.
I think it’s safe to enjoy this particular pig getting stuck
In November 2022, an inmate at the facility’s low-security prison camp pulled out a gun and attempted to shoot a visitor in the head. The weapon, which the inmate shouldn’t have had …
Well, that seems a bit obvious.
Just to take a jab at the US from a European perspective…
You don’t have the right to bear arms in prison? I thought guns were sacred in the US!?
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.
We’re probably like 3 or 4 main timeline events away from this becoming a legitimate state policy - and it’s not much longer before it is made into a reality TV show for public entertainment.
The Running Man theme intensifies
Yeah, nothing in the second amendment says they shouldn’t have guns.
Nothing in the second amendment says who should have guns at all unless you interpret it as saying only a militia should have them. That’s a big part of the problem.
You should read the text of our 13th amendment.
Lmao :)
I hope he was stabbed somewhere where he found out what it was like to not be able to breathe.
