A woman sexually assaulted by a former Minneapolis police officer when she was a teenager sued Minneapolis and the officer Monday, claiming that more should have been done to protect her. The woman, identified as L.M.G. in her complaint, says that David Edward Campbell broke Minneapolis Police Department policy when he took her, then 16 years old, on department "ride-alongs" where he sexually assaulted her while in uniform, Courthouse News Service reports. In her complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, the plaintiff claims the city has a history of nonexistent or unenforced policies that led to her sexual assaults. "Defendant City of Minneapolis is believed to have known, had reason to know, or should have known of the unusual circumstances of the 'ride-alongs' with plaintiff and potentially dangerous propensities of defendant Campbell and failed to protect L.M.G. from the offending employee," she said in her complaint.
The plaintiff also claims that Campbell's fellow officers and supervising officers saw her along with him during over 20 ride-alongs. The plaintiff says there was apparently little oversight, either by Minneapolis or its police department. Campbell had 30 complaints filed against him, none of which resulted in discipline, before he was stripped of his law enforcement license, according to Communities United Against Police Brutality, a Minnesota-based police watchdog. He was convicted in 2018 of two felony counts of criminal sexual conduct, terroristic threats and stalking after L.M.G. reported his abuse to a school social worker. He was later sentenced to 57 months in prison, and was required to register as a predatory offender. At the time of the assaults,