Who would have thought that George Floyd‘s murderer, former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, would have a history of using excessive force against citizens, including the dangerous placement of his knee in a person’s upper back?
Oh, everybody? Everyone who isn’t a “back the blue” bootlicker who is indifferent to police racism saw it coming a mile away that it would turn out Floyd wasn’t Chauvin’s first police brutality rodeo?
Well, maybe some would find it more surprising that when it comes to Chauvin’s apparent penchant for police violence, no one is safe — not even white women.
Last May, we reported the story of Patty Day, a former employee of the Public Works Department, who claimed in a lawsuit that, in January 2020, Chauvin dragged her out of her minivan and pinned her to the ground with his knee, just as he did when he murdered Floyd just a few months later. Well, now, the city of Minneapolis owes $600,000 to Day and her legal team. Day, who has admitted she was drunk on the night of Jan. 17, 2020, filed the suit last May, claiming to be a victim of excessive force and wrongful arrest…