The City of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $600,000 to a woman who alleges former police officer Derek Chauvin once knelt on her back.
Patty Day, a former employee of the Public Works Department, agreed to settle with the city council after claiming that Chauvin pinned her to the ground with his knee.
Her story was meant to align with Chauvin’s infamous maneuver, which some argue led to George Floyd’s death—though autopsy reports dispute this.
In her complaint, Day claims that Chauvin’s fellow Officer Ellen Jensen caught her drunk driving, at which point they “violently yanked Patty from her vehicle and, without justification, threw her to the ground in the middle of a street.”
She claims Chauvin broke her tooth, injured her arm and shoulder, and caused other serious injuries before she was handcuffed and arrested.
“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,” the complaint stated.
Day initially sought a staggering $9 million but likely realized $600,000 was the best she was going to get.
“Chauvin is the most infamous police officer in Minnesota (if not United States) history,” the complaint continues.
“This exacerbates Patty’s emotional suffering and increases the frequency of her flashbacks, as Chauvin’s name is repeatedly in the news.”
Americans will never forget the summer of 2020 when footage of Chauvin restraining career criminal George Floyd with his knee reignited the Black Lives Matter movement and sparked hundreds of violent protests.
Chauvin, 45, received a harsh 22-and-a-half-year prison sentence for second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter over his alleged role in Floyd’s death.
Yet according to the medical examiner, Floyd had a “fatal level” of fentanyl in his system at the time of his passing.
In November 2023, an inmate and FBI informant attempted to assassinate Chauvin in a stabbing attack at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona.
He has since been moved to another facility in Oklahoma City where he has recovered from his injuries.
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