Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of the murder of George Floyd, was transferred to a new federal prison on Tuesday.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of the murder of George Floyd, was relocated to a federal prison in Texas on Tuesday.
Chauvin, 47, is now being held at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas, a low-security facility, according to the Bureau of Prisons who confirmed the transfer to the Associated Press (AP) on Tuesday.
Newsweek reached out to the Bureau of Prisons via email on Tuesday for comment.
The transfer comes after more than four years since Floyd, 46, died in May 2020 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes as Floyd, a Black man, repeatedly stated he couldn’t breathe. The killing, which was captured on video by a bystander, ignited global protests against racial injustice, police brutality and saw a reemergence of the Black Lives Matter movement.
