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Chauvin was responding to 911 call about a woman being held hostage on May 3
He was with officers Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Luis Realivasquez
Minneapolis officers forcefully detained a black man named Adrian Drakeford
It transpired that the 27-year-old Drakeford had nothing to do with the 911 call
A video of the incident bares a striking resemblance to the viral video last year that showed Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd for eight minutes until he died
Video shows cops in Floyd death roughed up innocent man just weeks prior
Three weeks before their deadly encounter with George Floyd, three officers crossed paths with the Drakefords.
Derek Chauvin, Alex Kueng roughly detaining an innocent Black man last spring.
Adrian Drakeford was leaving his apartment building when officers arrived after a call in which a woman claimed she was being held hostage. Drakeford, 27, had no connection to the call but just happened to be walking out when police arrived. He was tackled to the ground and handcuffed as his brother,
Lee, and girlfriend told the authorities they were making a mistake. Lee also started recording the incident with his cell phone.
Weeks before pinning George Floyd, three officers roughly detained the wrong man
The video from May 3, 2020, obtained by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, bears striking similarities to footage showing three of the same officers Chauvin, Lane and Kueng aggressively detaining Floyd on May 25, 2020. A few weeks later, Chauvin, Lane and Kueng would be fired and criminally charged in Floyd s death.
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Andy Mannix / Star Tribune | 3:45 pm, Feb. 3, 2021 ×
Derek Chauvin. (Hennepin County Sheriff s Office / TNS)
MINNEAPOLIS Three weeks before he planted his knee on George Floyd s neck, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin responded to a report of a woman being held hostage by armed men in an apartment.
Police watchdog group says Minneapolis uses legal loophole to keep police misconduct from the public Andy Mannix, Star Tribune
One Minneapolis police officer made a reckless turn and caused a preventable car crash.
In a separate case, an officer failed to turn on his body camera while interviewing witnesses at a crime scene.
Another officer used inappropriate language toward a victim of domestic assault and then never wrote a report on the call.
In all of these cases of substantiated rule violations, the officers supervisors opted for the same remedy: coaching.
Coaching is a form of one-on-one mentoring that the Minneapolis Police Department uses to deal with low-level rule violations so low, according to the Minneapolis City Attorney s Office, that it doesn t qualify as real discipline.