The city of Minneapolis is poised to settle another batch of workers’ compensation cases with police officers, including one who cost the city over $400,000 in legal fees after he was sued for beating people up while off duty.
A Minneapolis City Council committee approved four workers’ comp settlements with city employees on Monday, including one for former police officer Michael Griffin, who cost the city nearly $411,000 in legal fees for police brutality lawsuits in 2010-2011. He was terminated by Interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman in 2022 for carrying a rifle without authorization or training and lying about it, but misconduct is not legally relevant to whether the city has to pay workers’ comp benefits…