Paul Huynh biography: 13 things about Minneapolis, Minnesota cop

Paul Luther Huynh is a Vietnamese-American police officer from Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. Aside from Minneapolis, he has lived in other parts of Minnesota including Plymouth, Emily, Edina and Eden Prairie.
2. In 2014, he became a Minneapolis Police Department officer.
3. From 2015 to 2018, eight complaints were filed against him, none of which resulted in discipline.
4. In 2016, he was one of the recipients of the Minneapolis Police Department chief’s Award of Merit.
5. In 2018, his annual salary was $79515.13.
6. On July 14, 2020, he and his fellow Minneapolis Police Department officers Steven W. Mosey and Tyler Klund arrested Damarlo West in Minneapolis. At the police station, Minneapolis Police Department sergeant Darcy Klund, Tyler’s father, conducted a use of force review at Mosey’s request.
7. In November 2020, he received an award for his investigative work.
8. On December 30, 2020, he, Darcy and their fellow Minneapolis Police Department officer Jason Schmidt were involved in the fatal shooting of Dolal Bayle Idd at a Holiday Gas station in Minneapolis, which was about 1 mile away from where George Floyd was arrested on May 25, 2020.
9. On May 24, 2021, West filed a constitutional rights lawsuit against him, Tyler, Darcy, Mosey and their fellow Minneapolis Police Department officers Alexandra Dubay, Richard Curtis Walker, Gabriel Daniel Grout, Justin Stetson and one unnamed male officer. 
10. On August 5, 2021, Dakota County, Minnesota attorney Kathy Keena concluded that he, Darcy and Schmitt were justified in killing Idd on December 30, 2020.
11. In November 2021, U.S. District Judge David Doty rejected the request of the city of Minneapolis to dismiss the lawsuit filed against him and other Minneapolis Police Department officers by West on May 24, 2021.
12. On October 27, 2022, a civil rights lawsuit was filed against him, Darcy, Michael Kennedy, Joseph Brown, Jaclyn Marie Tuma, Jonathan Stalboerger, Matthew Severence, Souphaphone Daoheuang, Kyle Pond and Jacob Spies in Minnesota.
13. He was 47 years old when he became one of the defendants in a lawsuit filed on October 27, 2022. The plaintiffs were Marvin Lewis Chestnut, Lawrence Anthony Barnes, Charles Nguyen Thorstad, Tywan Lamont Walker, Larry Keshwan Mitchell, Robert Bradley Sayers, Nieta Jamil Aki Jackson, Otis Lee Walker and Larry Keshawn Mitchell.