And to be certain — with a little brother doing life without parole, myself — I firmly believe that no incarcerated inmate (regardless of prior offense) should be shanked 22 or more times in a prison library. [I hold this view, even about Jeffrey Dahmer, who was beaten to death with a mop handle in a shower and then violated, some years after his serial killings / cannibalism convictions. John plainly cheered his beating death at the time. He and Steve Hayward both did.]

So it is… that I am more than slightly… put off, by Hinderaker’s bleating for Derek Chauvin. [But let’s be clear, a final — now non-appealable verdict found that he MURDERED Brianna Floyd’s father in cold blood, on the street — while the man was defenseless. George Floyd had no chance to fight back, against Derek Chauvin — but we are told Chauvin was able to throw/trade quite a few punches, with his assailant, in the Tuscon, Arizona medium security prison library.]

Yes, true — no one should be stabbed. And yes, ALSO true: the guards have families too. They are entitled not to get killed by prematurely rushing into a violent altercation with knives. The updated, and now published reports say the guards… pepper sprayed the attacker.

That likely only slowed the attacker down. And these guards are not likely to risk their lives, for an inmate like Derek Chavin. It is… wrong, yes — John is correct about that. But we all know it happens.

Yup. Prisons are awful places. [It is also odious that Hinderaker hints (falsely), but does not say aloud that the FBI might have engineered Chauvin’s stabbing (solely because the attacker had at one point been an FBI informant, in a Mexican gang crimes case). That is libelous.]

John would do better to advocate for more prison reform far and wide, if his column this morning is… in earnest.

But I suspect it is not. It is just more… race-baiting.

Hey John: where is your column on this at least equally deep tragedy: young Brianna is growing up without her father? Where?!

Out.