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Federal Court Sentences Derek Chauvin to 245 months (20.4 years) for Depriving George Floyd (and John Pope) of Their Federal Civil Rights

Federal Court Sentences Derek Chauvin to 245 months (20.4 years) for Depriving George Floyd (and John Pope) of Their Federal Civil Rights

On July 7, 2022, in the U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota, Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced Derek Chauvin to 245 months (20.4 years) in federal prison for (a) his depriving George Floyd of his federal civil rights by pinning his knee against Floyd’s neck and by failing to provide medical care for Floyd on May 25, 2020, ultimately causing his death and (b) Chauvin’s holding down with his…

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The Weepy Voiced Killer

TW: Crime Scene Photos, link to 911 calls

At Midnight on December 31st, 1980, police in St. Paul, Minnesota received a phone call detailing a murder. The voice was the first of many calls they would receive throughout the next few years, guiding them to Malberg Manufacturing Company machine shop because there was “a girl hurt there.” Upon police arrival, they found the body of 20-year-old, Karen Potack. The scene was grotesque in nature. She was lying naked in the snow and had been bludgeoned more than 10 times with a tire iron. She had been beaten to the point her skull was cracked open, exposing her brain; but she miraculously survived. Potack had apparently come into the city for a New Year’s Eve party with her sisters, leaving around midnight. She then wandered around the city intoxicated when she crossed paths with her assailant. Her injuries were so bad that she sustained multiple brain injuries and could not identify her attacker. 

On June 3rd, 1981; a group of teenage boys found the body of 18-year-old, Kimberly Compton. The assailant later contacted Police in St. Paul again, pleading on the phone call: “God damn, will you find me? I just stabbed somebody with an ice pick. I can’t stop myself. I keep killing somebody.” His strange— almost weepy— voice in both calls, dubbed him the Weepy Voiced Killer in the media. Upon arriving at the scene, they discovered 18-year-old, Kimberly Compton. She was stabbed 61 times with the ice pick. Investigators were able to successfully trace the call to a pay phone across from a bar on the corner of St. Peter Street and the Bus Depot on 9th. Two days after the discovery of her body, police received another call; stating that he didn’t mean to kill Compton and that he would try not to kill anyone else. Part of the tape was released to the public in hopes that someone would be able to identify the voice. But the police lines were flooded with calls, which none seemed to be useful in identifying the man. 

On July 21st, 1982, Carol Kellogg had driven to her best friend, Kathleen Greening’s, home in Roseville. They were scheduled to leave St. Paul on a vacation to Macinac Island. Carol had knocked on the door and let herself in when nobody answered the door. She called out for Kathleen and began to search room by room when there was no answer. Kellogg discovered Kathleen Greening’s body face up in the bathtub with her knees bent towards the front of the tub. Initially, her death was ruled as an accident. It wasn’t until years later, that her actual murdered would be linked to her case. 

On August 6th, 1982, another body was found by a newspaper carrier on his route along the Mississippi River and 29th Street. She had been stabbed to death, and was identified as 40-year-old, Barbara Simons. The night before she had been at a bar called, the Hexagon. Simons apparently had offered a man she had met at the bar a cigarette and had told the waitress, “He’s cute. I hope he’s nice, since he’s giving me a ride home.” Again, the police received a call from the weepy voiced man, saying; “Please don’t talk, just listen… I’m sorry I killed that girl, I stabbed her 40 times. Kimberly Compton was the first, over in St. Paul.” Police wanted to talk to the man that had given Barbara a ride home the night before (August 5th, 1982). Witnesses described him as being in his 40’s, around 6 feet tall and 185 pounds. He was also said to have a dark complexion and receding black hair. 

As police attempted to track the man down, another victim was attacked. On August 21st, 1982, 21-year-old, sex worker, Denise Williams was approached by an unidentified man and the two arranged a price for her services. Denise then hopped into his car, she recalls him finishing very quickly and thinking that he may want to do something else after a few moments. She had noticed the man had turned onto a dead-end road, driving through a dark and suburban area, and realized her life was in danger. She says that she then began to look around after realizing that she did not have a weapon with her. She saw a glass bottle lying at her feet and thought she would use that if he tried anything. The man lunged at her with a screwdriver and stabbed her a total of 15 times before she was able to process what was happening. William’s then reached for the glass bottle lying on the floor of the car and smashed the man over the head with it, causing him cuts to the hand and face. Which undoubtedly saved her life as she was able to flee his car. Denise’s screams drew the attention of a nearby man who was able to wrestle with him, but ultimately caused the man to flee the scene. The man then returned to his apartment and decided his wound needed medical attention. He phones the St. Paul fire department, who discovered “aural similarities” to the man who had been calling police about the killings in the area.

The man was identified as 37-year-old, Paul Michael Stephani. He grew up in Austin, Minnesota and moved to St. Paul in the 60’s. He had worked as a hospital janitor and a shipping clerk. He was not able to keep a job and blamed his epilepsy, which he apparently suffered from an older job. After losing his employment at Malberg, he returned to the area around the site full of anger. This is where he met Karen Potack. Stephani said, “When I picked her up, she had no jacket and I thought I’d take her for a cup of coffee. I just wanted to warm her up and I guess my mind snapped or something.” Stephani was arrested and charged with attempted second-degree assault and with the murder of Barbara Simons. There was not enough evidence to charge him to the other murders. During the trial of Simons’ muder case, Stephani's ex-wife, sister, and a woman who lived with him testified that they believed the hysterical caller revealing the attacks was Stephani. Those observations, alone, were not enough to identify Stephani as the Weepy-Voiced Killer since the hysterical crying distorted the voice. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison. 

In 1997, years after his arrest, Paul Stephani confessed to the murder of Kim Compton after discovering he only had a year to live due to skin cancer. He also confessed to the murders of Barbara Simons and Kathleen Greening. Although he was charged in Simons murder, he had never outrightly confessed to it. He was also never a suspect in Kathleen’s killing, but he was able to provide intimate details of the murder that only the killer would know. Furthermore, they were able to find the name, “Paul S.” in Kathleen’s address book with Stephani’s number. He also confessed to the beating of Karen Potack in 1980. 

In 1998, Paul Stephani died at the Oak Parks Heights Maximum Security Prison. 

911 Calls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9tZewM5LlE

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The Minnesota judge who presided over Derek Chauvin’s trial in George Floyd’s death postponed the trial of the convicted murderer’s three former police colleagues on Thursday until March 2022, in order to give federal prosecutors room to bring their civil rights case against the officers to a head first. Trial had been scheduled for August.

As reported by the Associated Press, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill cited the need to put some time and distance between Chauvin’s high-profile trial and that of the three men accused of aiding and abetting him.

Some three weeks after that trial ended, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division leveled federal civil rights charges at Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane on May 7. The indictment hits Thao and Kueng with counts of failing to intervene when Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 20 seconds.

“Specifically, Defendants Kueng and Thao were aware that Defendant Chauvin was holding his knee across George Floyd’s neck as Floyd lay handcuffed and unresisting, and that Defendant Chauvin continued to hold Floyd to the ground even after Floyd became unresponsive, and the defendants willfully failed to intervene to stop Defendant Chauvin’s use of unreasonable force,” the indictment states.

The grand jury accused all three of “deliberate indifference” to Floyd’s “serious medical needs.”

Those federal charges will now jump the queue of the pending state trial against Thao, Kueng, and Lane, whom state authorities accused of aiding and abetting second degree murder and other charges last year on June 3.

Judge Cahill, who presided Chauvin’s trial, reportedly issued his ruling postponing the state trial during a hearing on Thursday morning.

No trial date appears to have been set for the federal charges, filed in the U.S. District of Minnesota.

On the day they were indicted, Thao, Kueng and Lane were all released on a $25,000 bond. Chauvin has been remanded to Minnesota’s maximum-security prison Oak Park Heights Correctional Facility since a jury convicted him on all three counts—second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter—on April 20.

The federal charges carry much tougher penalties upon conviction, with life imprisonment possible for all of the men.

Judge Cahill paved the way for a stiff sentence for Chauvin on Wednesday, finding that Floyd was “terrified by the knowledge that he was likely to die” but that Chauvin remained “indifferent.” Chauvin faces the possibility of up to 40 years imprisonment. Sentencing is set for June 25.

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Derek Chauvin Is Being Held in Solitary Confinement For 23 Hours a Day

Derek Chauvin Is Being Held in Solitary Confinement For 23 Hours a Day

Derek Chauvin is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison after he was convicted of murdering George Floyd and led out of a courtroom in handcuffs, according to authorities. Mr. Chauvin, 45, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on Mr. Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last May, was sent to the prison, in Oak Park Heights,…

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Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent-- the LORD detests them both.- Proverbs 17:15 #georgefloyd On Wednesday, October 7, 2020, Derek Chauvin, one of the officers responsible for the death of George Floyd was released from prison in Oak Park Heights. @fox9 reports that a Minnesota Department of Correction spokesperson confirmed Chauvin is no longer in custody, and records show that he posted a $1 million bond. Chauvin has been locked up behind bars since May as he awaited his trial for the death of George Floyd. As previously mentioned, he was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. The legal teams for all the officers that were involved in George Floyd's death have filed motions to have the trial moved out of Hennepin County to any other surrounding counties. They argue that the jury within Hennepin County have already been influenced by the media coverage surrounding the murder of George Floyd. Back in September, the judge heard their legal teams' argument to have the trial moved to a different location and to join the four cases into one and dismissing the case altogether. #derekchauvin Whoever says to the guilty, "You are innocent," will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.- Proverbs 24:24 #justiceforgeorgefloyd “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.”- Leviticus 19:15 #tsrupdatez 🔥Subscribe to my YouTube channel and podcast,👉🏾"Uplift Past Crossroads"👈🏾🔥 Befriend me on Facebook/LinkedIn = Sean Christopher Jenkins 🔥Follow👉🏾@troubledontlast 👈🏾IG/Twitter/Snap for more🔥 Turn on Post Notification - Like - Comment - Share - Save #repost @fox9 theshaderoom @jade_ashley94 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ . . Follow my other Instagram pages: Subscribe to YouTube(in bio)👉🏾@my_daily_bible👈🏾 Subscribe to podcast(in bio)👉🏾@upliftpastcrossroads👈🏾 YouTube👉🏾@upliftwithdrj👈🏾 Fashion👉🏾@glamourmeetsgq👈🏾 . . 👤 Tag a friend who would like this page ⬇️ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ #racialinjustice #racialinequality #minnesotapolice #minnesotapolicedepartment #systemicracism #systemicoppression #systematicracism #racisminamerica (at Mount Juliet, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLPLYEFmSs/?igshid=1cavmwii7mdh9

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I'm pissed! How the hell is he able to get away with paying bonds to be free! He should rot in jail until his court date! He should stay in Jail for what he did! Special treatment for this man just no! First Breonna Taylor didn't get justice with her killer not guilty now George Floyd's killer is able to walk free posting bail...out justice system needs major reform!

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Minnesota’s first Somali Muslim cop gets 12 years for murdering Australian woman

The judge said Mohamed Noor had expressed remorse for the consequences of his actions but not the murder itself.

Former US police officer Mohamed Noor has been sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in jail for fatally shooting Australian woman Justine Damond Ruszczyk through the side of his police car.

Noor was convicted of third degree murder and second degree manslaughter for killing Ms Damond Ruszczyk just minutes after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her Minneapolis home in July 2017.

Judge Kathryn Quaintance said the jury members who convicted Noor had asked when US police culture would change.

"Will there be changes? Change is needed," she said.

"Will some of the supervising officers be fired? Why should a civilian be afraid of approaching a squad car? What about the motto on the car to serve with compassion?"

Judge Quaintance also dismissed a defence motion to acquit Noor and set aside the jury verdict.

The judge said Noor had expressed remorse for the consequences of his actions but not the murder itself.

"He does not take personal responsibility for making an erroneous decision to fire a gun at her," she said.

"He has not acknowledged that he could have handled the situation in any other way."

Outside court, a large group of Somali Americans protested the verdict, calling it an aberration of justice and an attack on Muslim immigrants. The protest dispersed quickly and peacefully.

The court heard that officers at the scene shielded Noor from scrutiny.

Sergeant Shannon Barnette, the officer in charge of the scene, sent the car Noor fired from off to be washed before it had been completely examined.

She also turned off her body worn camera at the scene and told another officer that Ms Damond Ruszczyk was "probably a drunk or a drunk addict".

There is no hard proof of what was said between the two, but Sergeant Barnette told the court Noor's welfare, rather than the victim, was foremost in her mind.

"He asked me several times 'Sarge is she going to be OK?' I told him, I'm not going to worry about that right now: I'm going to worry about you," she told the court.

Prosecutors repeatedly complained about police efforts to obstruct their inquiry.

Members of the Minneapolis Police Department were reluctant to speak with police.

It was only when the prosecutors convened a grand jury in December 2018 that they could gain the crucial evidence they needed to bring Noor to trial.

As the trial was underway, the head of the local police union, Chief Bob Kroll, was warned that he faced contempt charges for observing the hearing in an overflow courtroom when he was listed as a witness.

Noor has returned to Oak Parks Height prison, one of the most secure prisons in the country.

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Noor lied, just like many of the cops that tried to protect him. via The one lie that locked up a killer cop

Prosecutor Amy Sweasy said that 33-year-old Mohamed Noor's account of the 2017 shooting was a giveaway. 

Ms Ruszczyk, 40, had earlier called police to report a possible sexual assault near her Minneapolis home, which she shared with her American fiancé Don Damond. 

Noor testified during his trial that after he arrived on scene, a loud bang on the squad car scared him and his partner Matthew Harrity.

He said he saw a woman at his partner's window raising her arm and that he fired to protect Harrity's life after he was unable to retrieve the gun from his holster.

Ms Sweasy said that the body cam from another officer had recorded Harrity saying he had his gun out of the holster, but did not fire.

'It could not have been that Harrity's story and Noor's story were accurate because they were both so different, which in the end, is often what criminal trials come down to,' Ms Sweasy said.

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Murderer Derek Chauvin Dismal Prison Life

Murderer Derek Chauvin Dismal Prison Life

Derek Chauvin is paying the price for his deeds, living a miserable life in jail, surrounded by armed guards and with few liberties… a fate he chose for himself. Chauvin has been held in the Administrative Control Unit, a section of the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights’s restrictive housing with extensive security, for the past eight months. His every move is recorded by…

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His letter his letter is loosened up from Chicago and it's heading to Michigan shortly because Michigan is pulling it there from Chicago they don't see the benefit of leaving it in that place because they consider themselves to be different people this is one of the reasons why it's past Chicago and they're trying to bring it to Minnesota weird

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But it's normally sometimes a problem that other people start pulling if they notice them doing that too and it's going on now and Minnesota is not a bad place for a prison sentence it's kind of luxurious compared to other places especially New York but it comes to work and it's been in prison send us another prison said yeah and one step for me from being a patient you notice that too it's kind of torture if you're acknowledging it

It says he notices it it's a real pain in the ass cuz everyone's making fun of him but probably can't help it cuz it's a stupid job people saying to stupid things and he has to try and keep it somehow

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Will Derek Chauvin survive prison? Internet says '22.5 years for ex-cop is death sentence'

Will Derek Chauvin survive prison? Internet says ‘22.5 years for ex-cop is death sentence’

After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 270 months, or 22.5 years for murdering George Floyd, he returned to the Oak Park Heights prison to what the Department of Corrections calls Minnesota’s “most secure” unit. However, people are not convinced Chauvin will safely be able to serve out his term due to the fate that befell notorious billionaire pedophile…

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Judge's ruling allows for longer sentence for Derek Chauvin in murder of George Floyd Chauvin, the 45-year-old former Minneapolis Police officer, was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter last month for kneeling on the neck and back of Floyd, handcuffed and lying prone on the street, for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. He could face up to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder, up to 25 years for third-degree murder and up to 10 years for manslaughter. Chauvin has no prior criminal record, so Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines recommend about 12 and a half years in prison for each murder charge and about four years for the manslaughter charge. In this case, state prosecutors asked for a tougher sentence than the recommendations provide, citing five aggravating factors they said applied. Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, said those factors did not apply. Judge Peter Cahill ruled Wednesday that four of the five factors were proven beyond a reasonable doubt. He found that (1) Chauvin abused a position of trust and authority, and (2) he treated Floyd with particular cruelty. “The slow death of George Floyd occurring over approximately six minutes of his positional asphyxia was particularly cruel in that Mr. Floyd was begging for his life and obviously terrified by the knowledge that he was likely to die but during which the defendant objectively remained indifferent to Mr. Floyd’s pleas,” Cahill wrote. Cahill also ruled that (3) children were present during the offense, and (4) Chauvin committed the crime as a group with the active participation of at least three other people. On that fourth point, Judge Cahill wrote that three former officers — Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng — were actively involved in the incident, but he made no finding as to their intent or knowledge. They have each pleaded not guilty to charges of aiding and abetting. However, Cahill rejected the aggravating factor that Floyd was “particularly vulnerable,” noting Floyd had initially resisted arrest. He also ruled that restraining Floyd in the prone position did not create a vulnerability but was instead the actual mechanism of his death. Chauvin waived his right for the jury to decide the aggravating factors, instead opting for Judge Cahill to do so. His sentencing is set for June 25, and he is currently being held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights. The sentences for all three crimes would likely be served at the same time, not consecutively. “Generally, when an offender is convicted of multiple current offenses… concurrent sentencing is presumptive,” according to the guidelines. Chauvin faces other legal issues as well. A federal grand jury indicted all four former officers in connection with Floyd’s death, alleging they violated his constitutional rights, according to court documents filed in federal court in Minnesota. Chauvin also was charged in a separate indictment related to an incident in which he allegedly used unreasonable force on a Minneapolis 14-year-old in September 2017, the Justice Department said in a statement. CNN’s Omar Jimenez and Aaron Cooper contributed to this report. Source link Orbem News #Chauvin #Derek #DerekChauvin:Judge'srulingallowsforlongersentenceforex-officerwhokilledGeorgeFloyd-CNN #Floyd #George #judges #LONGER #Murder #ruling #sentence #us

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A jury found Chauvin guilty of all three criminal counts against him in April, including second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder. He was sentenced to 22 ½ years in prison and is currently being held at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Oak Park Heights.

Chauvin is now appealing that decision. He filed documents last month in which he wrote that he found 14 problems with the court proceedings, including that the district court abused its authority when it rejected a motion from the former police officer to change the venue of the trial.

He also took issue with the court denying his request to sequester the jury.

Chauvin, during his trial in the spring, was represented by Eric Nelson. According to the Star Tribune, that representation was paid for by the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association.

The group, however, will not finance Chauvin's legal representation for the appeal, according to the newspaper.

"I have been informed that their obligation to pay for my representation terminated upon my conviction and sentencing," Chauvin wrote in his affidavit, according to the AP.

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Derek Chauvin Is Being Held in Solitary Confinement For 23 Hours a Day

Derek Chauvin Is Being Held in Solitary Confinement For 23 Hours a Day

Derek Chauvin is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison after he was convicted of murdering George Floyd and led out of a courtroom in handcuffs, according to authorities. Mr. Chauvin, 45, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on Mr. Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last May, was sent to the prison, in Oak Park Heights,…

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George Floyd's killer Derek Chauvin held in isolation for 23-hours-a-day in maximum security prison

Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd, is being held in isolation for 23 hours a day in a maximum security prison, authorities have revealed.

Prison officers check on Chauvin every 30 minutes, his meals are delivered to his cell and he will be subjected to a mental health check every three months of his incarceration.

Image: Isolation is used when ‘someone’s presence in the general population is a safety concern’. Pic: Minnesota Department of Corrections

This is “for his safety,” a Minnesota Department of Corrections spokesperson said.

On Wednesday, a jury unanimously convicted Chauvin of the murder of George Floyd after hearing how he had knelt on the man’s neck for over nine minutes during his arrest – continuing after his body went limp.

The former Minneapolis police officer had denied charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

But after 10-and-a-half hours of deliberations, the jury convicted the 45-year-old on all counts.

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Millions watch Chauvin being found guilty

Under Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines, he faces 12-and-a-half years in prison for his murder conviction as a first-time offender but prosecutors could seek a maximum of 40 years if the judge determined there were “aggravating factors”.

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After the hearing, he was led away in handcuffs and taken to the maximum security Oak Park Heights prison.

Image: Chauvin is led away in handcuffs after being convicted

Image: Chauvin will be sentenced on 16 June

A spokesperson there said he was given “administrative segregation” status for his safety, and is in the Administrative Control Unit (ACU).

The ACU is the state’s most secure unit.

Image: An ‘Administrative Control Unit’ cell. Pic: Minnesota Department of Corrections

The spokesman added: “Administrative segregation is used when someone’s presence in the general population is a safety concern.

“There are 41 people in the ACU and cells are monitored by cameras with corrections officers also doing rounds at least every 30 minutes.

“He’ll have on average an hour a day out of his cell for exercise (alone). Meals are delivered to his cell.

“He is in a single cell and will not have contact with other incarcerated people.”

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Here's what's next for Derek Chauvin after found guilty of the murder of George Floyd

Here’s what’s next for Derek Chauvin after found guilty of the murder of George Floyd

It will be another eight weeks before he is sentenced, Judge Peter Cahill said Tuesday. And while Chauvin has been on bail since October, Cahill revoked Chauvin’s bail after the verdict, so he will now wait Condemnation in prison. Minnesota Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Fitzgerald said Chauvin was moved to the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Oak Park Heights. The correctional facility…