The City of Minneapolis will pay $600,000 to a woman who alleged that former policeman Derek Chauvin pinned her to the ground with his knee in January 2020, just months before he used the same maneuver on George Floyd.

The city council last Thursday agreed to settle with Patty Day, a former employee of the Public Works Department, who filed a lawsuit last year claiming that officers employed excessive force and wrongfully arrested her.

In her suit, Day acknowledged she was driving drunk on the evening of Jan. 17, 2020, when she got stuck in the snow........

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