The lawsuit says Chauvin pressed his knee into the woman’s back while she lay handcuffed, four months before Floyd’s death.

The Minneapolis City Council announced they settled a recent civil lawsuit with former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, causing some, as WCCO's Jonah Kaplan, to wonder about the future of the city's police reform.

Patty Day was sitting in her Volkswagen minivan on a snowy south Minneapolis street on Jan. 17, 2020, when a police officer came up to the car and soon yanked her out, threw her face-down on the street and ground his knee into her back.

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,” the lawsuit reads.