IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 01-60169 Conference Calendar

EDWARD WHITAKER,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

versus

WALTER BOOKER, Superintendent, Community Service Director at Parchman; JOHN WALLER, Chairperson on Classification Committee at Parchman; VICTORIA GRANDERSON, Correctional Officer, Trainee,

Defendants-Appellees.

- - - - - - - - - - Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi USDC No. 4:00-CV-223-B-A - - - - - - - - - - October 26, 2001

Before WIENER, BENAVIDES, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Edward Whitaker, Mississippi prisoner #R8074, appeals the

district court’s dismissal of his

complaint as

frivolous pursuant to

(e)(2)(B)(i). Whitaker

asserted a “failure-to-protect” claim arising from another

inmate’s stabbing of him. Whitaker has not sufficiently alleged

deliberate indifference because he has failed to allege that

prison officials knew that he faced a substantial risk of serious

harm and that the officials disregarded that risk by failing to

* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4. No. 01-60169 -2-

take reasonable measures to abate it. Farmer v. Brennan,

(1994). The district court did not err in

dismissing his complaint as frivolous.

Whitaker’s appeal is frivolous, and it is hereby DISMISSED.

See Howard v. King,

(5th Cir. 1983); 5TH CIR.

R. 42.2. Whitaker is WARNED that the district court’s dismissal

of the present case as frivolous and this court’s dismissal of

his appeal as frivolous count as two strikes against him for

purposes of

(g). See Adepegba v. Hammons,

(5th Cir. 1996).

APPEAL DISMISSED.