Minneapolis will pay $600,000 to settle suit by woman Derek Chauvin violently arrested for DUI
Patty Day was sitting in her Volkswagen minivan on a snowy south Minneapolis street on Jan. 17, 2020, when a police officer came up to the car and soon yanked her out, threw her face-down on the street and ground his knee into her back.
About four months later, that officer, Derek Chauvin, made headlines and sparked protests across the globe for taking a similar approach to a man named George Floyd. Except that time, Floyd died under his knee on a south Minneapolis street, as the world later watched in horror.
Patty Day was struggling with a divorce and had been drinking too much before getting in her van, but she said Chauvin immediately escalated the situation, cracking her tooth, bruising her body and injuring her arm and shoulder before handcuffing her and pressing his knee into her back as he cuffed her and she cried out in pain.
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The lawsuit alleged the city had a longstanding practice of “unchecked Fourth Amendment violations” by police and sought at least $9 million in damages, but will be settled for $600,000 after it was approved by the Minneapolis City Council after a closed-door session Thursday. The vote was 10-0, with Council Members Jamal Osman absent and Linea Palmisano recused because Day used to be her policy aide. According to the settlement, $175,000 will go to Day and $425,000 to her attorneys.
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