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22 Jun 2020, 2:25 pm by John Floyd
  Immunity from Accountability Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on George Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 9:19 am by Gillian Ganesan
 The Minneapolis City Council has begun the process of going even further than divestment — they are not only diving into police funding and malfeasance, they are actively looking into disbanding the police department in favor of a new set of services and first responders, moves informed by community-led public safety. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 6:29 am by Bridget Crawford
The previous Minneapolis police commissioner initiated police use of body cameras and sought a Department of Justice review of the police department’s early intervention warning system in an effort to assess and improve it. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 5:05 pm by Tom Smith
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo called the carnage "tragic and senseless" and said the FBI and state agencies will assist his department as it deals with the recent surge in shootings around the city. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 12:39 pm by Patrick A. Malone
The independent, nonpartisan Kaiser Health News Service and USA Today deserve credit for scrutinizing dozens of incidents involving officials’ actions nationwide against people protesting the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 7:47 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Josh Gerstein reports in Politico: As part of a Justice Department-led drive to crack down on violence growing out of protests spurred by George Floyd's killing at the hands of Minneapolis police, the federal government is prosecuting more than 70 people for alleged behavior that runs the gamut from mere vandalism, to inciting looting through Facebook Live posts, to arson, and, in one case, murder. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 9:03 am by David M. Boertje
Protests over the killing of of George Floyd by a police officer in downtown Minneapolis came with waves of violence and looting across the country. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  Rolfe now has been fired from the police department and charged with murder and Brosnan has been placed on administrative leave. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 5:01 am by Sam duPont
Reporting from BuzzFeed revealed that the Minneapolis Police Department is one among hundreds of law enforcement agencies—along with thousands of private entities—using the services of Clearview AI. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 5:14 am by Richard Altieri, Margaret Taylor
Minutes earlier, however, Attorney General William Barr had ordered federal law enforcement officials and military police under federal control to push peaceful protesters from the streets around Lafayette Square—which they did using flashbangs, smoke bombs, pepper balls, rubber bullets and mounted police officers. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 7:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Some police contracts (but not all) limit departments' ability to abolish police positions or layoff officers. [read post]
14 Jun 2020, 12:15 pm by John Floyd
  Most of the nation’s police departments, through their unions, support “tough on crime” Republicans. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm by Jamison Chung
The Minneapolis police officers involved in Floyd’s killing have been charged with second-degree murder and with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 5:00 am by Gene Takagi
” … “Decades of police reform efforts have proved that the Minneapolis Police Department cannot be reformed and will never be accountable for its actions,” they said. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 2:00 am by Tammy Binford, Contributing Editor
He says police departments need to be open to talent, but they should give some preference to local candidates or at least recruit from those areas. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 2:00 am by Tammy Binford, Contributing Editor
He says police departments need to be open to talent, but they should give some preference to local candidates or at least recruit from those areas. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, was shouted out of a protest in that city after telling organizers that he did not support the outright abolishment of the police department. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm by Max Masuda-Farkas
” Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council announced a commitment to dismantle the city’s police department amid protests following the killing of George Floyd. [read post]