MINNEAPOIS – The City of Minneapolis will pay $9 million to two citizens who said police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into their necks six years ago, just as he did in 2020 when he killed George Floyd. Chauvin now is serving 21 years in prison for excessive policing. At a news conference Mayor Jacob Frey apologized to John Pope Jr., who will receive $7.5 million, and to Zoya Code, who will receive $1.4 million, for 2017 incidents. Frey blamed Chauvin’s police supervisors: “He should have been fired in 2017. He should have been held accountable in 2017.”
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