Derek Chauvin — the disgraced police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — is facing new troubling allegations that sound painfully similar to what the world witnessed nearly 4 years ago.
In documents obtained by TMZ … a woman named Patricia “Patty” Dawn Welch Day claims Chauvin and Ellen Jensen, another Minneapolis police officer, used excessive force on her during a January 2020 incident.
Patty alleges Chauvin and Jensen “violently yanked” her from her vehicle without justification and threw her to the ground — which she says caused her to fracture her tooth, injure her arm and shoulder, and sustain other injuries … all before being handcuffed.
Patty claims Chauvin then pressed his knee into her back while she was restrained … comparing it to what “he would later do to snuff the life out of George Floyd.” She says Jensen failed to intervene during Chauvin’s use of force.
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She’s also going after the Minneapolis Police Department … claiming there was body cam video to back up her claims, but she alleges the MPD ignored it, allowing the cops to go on unchecked.
Patty is seeking $9 million from both Chauvin and Jensen — in addition to the MPD — for compensatory damages, as well as an unspecified amount for punitive damages.
Chauvin is currently serving more than 22 years in prison after his 2021 conviction for second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. That same year, Chauvin took a plea deal on a separate federal charge of violating GF’s civil rights … being sentenced to another 21 years in prison.
The sentences are running concurrently, however.