Justice Department Moves to Cancel Police Reform Settlements Reached with Minneapolis and Louisville

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Justice Department Moves to Cancel Police Reform Settlements Reached with Minneapolis and Louisville​

By Steve Karnowski and Alanna Durkin Richer
Associated Press
May 6, 2025

"MINNEAPOLIS — The Justice Department moved Wednesday to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville that called for an overhaul of their police departments following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that became the catalyst for nationwide protests in the summer of 2020.
The Trump administration also announced it was retracting the findings of Justice Department investigations into six other police departments that the Biden administration had accused of civil rights violations.
The Trump administration accused previous Justice Department leadership of using flawed legal theories to judge police departments and pursuing costly and burdensome court-enforced settlements known as consent decrees to address alleged problems it argues are better dealt with at the local level."

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Justice Department drops Minneapolis consent decree that called for overhaul of PD

The DOJ stated it will no longer hold the city to the terms laid out in the agreement; the Minneapolis PD will still be held under a consent decree by the Minnesota Human Rights Department

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