Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis City Council to hear community feedback on former 3rd Precinct site
Minneapolis City Council members on Tuesday will learn more about the community’s preferences for the future of the former 3rd Police Precinct site.
The building at the corner of East Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue has sat vacant since May 2020, when rioters burned the place in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
A poll found strong support among Minneapolis residents to convert the building into a “democracy center” and community space: 63% of all respondents supported the proposal, along with 70% of respondents within the 3rd Precinct.
Plans take shape for proposed ‘democracy center’ at former 3rd Police Precinct site
The “democracy center” would become the city’s new headquarters for Elections and Voter Services, which currently operates out of a business park in northeast Minneapolis.
Staff from the Minnehaha 3000 project will present the results of the community engagement process at the City Council Committee of the Whole meeting at 1:30 p.m.
Minneapolis, MN
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Minneapolis to pay $600,000 to settle with woman who says Derek Chauvin knelt on her neck
MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by a woman who alleged that ex-Officer Derek Chauvin hauled her from her minivan and pinned her to the ground with his knee in January 2020, just as he did four months later when he killed George Floyd.
Patty Day, formerly employed by the Public Works Department, claimed in a lawsuit filed last May that she was the victim of excessive force and a wrongful arrest. She acknowledged that she was drunk on the evening of Jan. 17, 2020, and depressed over her impending divorce and other difficulties when she got stuck in the snow for several hours.
Chauvin and his partner that night, Officer Ellen Jensen, eventually arrived on the scene. The lawsuit alleged that the officers “violently yanked” Day from her vehicle and threw her to the pavement, causing several injuries.
“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 alleged. A drunken driving charge was later dropped after a judge ruled that the officers lacked probable cause to arrest her and suppressed the blood alcohol test evidence.
The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved the $600,000 settlement Thursday. Council member LaTrisha Vetaw told her colleagues that $175,000 will go to Day while her attorneys will get $425,000.
The city has now paid over $36 million to settle police misconduct cases involving Chauvin, including $27 million to the Floyd family.
“While no settlement can undo what Patty endured, we are grateful to have reached an agreement that holds the officers accountable for their actions,” Day’s attorney, Katie Bennett, said in a statement. “This case is yet another example of the critical need for justice and reform in policing.”
Chauvin, who is white, remains incarcerated at a federal prison in Texas for his conviction in state court of murdering Floyd and a federal conviction for violating Floyd’s civil rights. The Black man’s murder sparked a national reckoning with racial injustice.
Minneapolis, MN
Man struck with glass bottle during altercation in Minneapolis
Minneapolis police say one person is recovering, and another has been arrested following an altercation Friday.
According to police, police were called to assist a man who was bleeding from the head at the 2500 block of Centeral Avenue northeast around 8:20 p.m. Friday.
Police found that a man had received non-life-threatening injuries from a glass bottle he was struck by.
According to police, the man had been involved in a physical altercation with another person when he was hit with the bottle, which caused lacerations to his head.
The other man he had been fighting later left the area in a vehicle before police arrived but was later found and arrested.
Police said they are still working to determine what lledup to the altercation.
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