Minneapolis, Louisville and Justice Department
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DOJ officials had previously announced the pattern or practice investigation into MPD on July 27, 2023, roughly six months after the death of Tyre Nichols.
DOJ is abandoning efforts for court-approved settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville after finding they had violated Black people's civil rights.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of high profile police killings.
Arizona GOP Congressman Abe Hamadeh took a victory lap as the Trump Justice Department announced it what called politically motivated and weaponized investigations into police departments.
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division said it will take “all necessary steps” to dismiss the consent decrees and lawsuits against the Louisville and Minneapolis
The move comes four days before the May 25 five-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white
Joshua M. Rogers pleads guilty to conspiracy related to destroying evidence in a Memphis fatal police shooting.