• August 2009: Eldridge Chatman receives $495,000 after being punched by an officer who was executing a warrant against someone else in his apartment building.

• December 2008: After a mistaken police raid of a house in 2007, the family receives $612,498 in a settlement from the city of Minneapolis.

• November 2007: In the city's largest payout for a suit involving the Police Department, Minneapolis police officer Duy Ngo is awarded $4.5 million for injuries suffered in an undercover operation in which he was shot six times by a fellow police officer.

• March 2005: The city approves a $355,775 settlement in a police brutality case brought by Rayma Wiggins and her daughter Gayna Wiggins, who were hurt by a Minneapolis police officer after a traffic stop.

• June 2004: The City Council agrees to pay $995,000 to Michael Polley, who lost his colon and part of his small intestine after being beaten by police who responded to a domestic dispute at his south Minneapolis home.

• April 2001: A 16-year-old is awarded $330,000 after suffering facial injuries, including a broken nose, when as a car theft suspect he was beaten by four Minneapolis police officers after he surrendered.

• August 2000: The family of Brian Feist is awarded $500,000 after he is killed when his limousine is struck by a stolen car being chased by Minneapolis police the wrong way on Interstate 94.

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