The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed that in January 2020, just four months after killing George Floyd, former officer Derek Chauvin pulled her from her minivan and forced her to the ground with his knee.
UPDATE: The City of Minneapolis is set to pay $600,000 to woman who was violently arrested by Derek Chauvin, the former cop who m*rdered George Floyd in 2020. Patricia Day, formerly employed by the Public Works Department, filed a lawsuit against the city for the treatment she… pic.twitter.com/bwulXU4kQo
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In a lawsuit filed last May, Patty Day, a former employee of the Public Works Department, claimed she was the victim of a false arrest and excessive force. She admitted that she was intoxicated on the night of January 17, 2020, and that she was depressed about her upcoming divorce and other issues when she became trapped in the snow for several hours.
Eventually, Chauvin and Officer Ellen Jensen, his partner that evening, showed up on the scene. According to the lawsuit, the officers “violently yanked” Day out of her car and flung her to the ground, injuring other.
According to the complaint: “Chauvin then assumed his signature pose, pressing his knee into the subdued and handcuffed Patty’s back — just as he would later do to snuff the life out of George Floyd — and remaining that way well after Patty was controlled,”
After a court declared that the cops had no probable cause to arrest her and suppressed the blood alcohol test evidence, the drunken driving allegation was eventually withdrawn.
The $600,000 settlement was unanimously accepted by the Minneapolis City Council on Thursday. LaTrisha Vetaw, a council member, informed her peers that Day would receive $175,000 and her lawyers would receive $425,000.
To far, the city has settled Chauvin-related police misconduct cases for nearly $36 million, including $27 million for the Floyd family.
