The Justice Department's investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department following George Floyd's death has found that cops there 'routinely' violated civil rights and used excessive force.
— at a press conference Friday, June 16. Garland said “there is reasonable cause to believe” the MPD and City of Minneapolis “engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct” that violated the First and Fourth Amendments, the Civil Rights Act, the Safe Streets Act, and the Americans With Disabilities Act.
“Specifically,” Garland said, “we found that MPD and the City of Minneapolis engages in a pattern or practice of using excessive force; unlawfully discriminating against Black and Native American people in enforcement activities; violating the rights of people engaged in protected speech; and discriminating against people with behavioral disabilities when responding to them in crisis.”
As a result of the investigation, Garland said the DOJ, the City of Minneapolis, and the MPD had “agreed in principle to negotiate towards a consent decree.” Such court-enforced agreements have been used to reform police departments in other cities like Baltimore, Chicago, and Ferguson, Missouri. Garland said MPD “routinely” used excessive force “often when no force [was] necessary.” That included “unjust deathly force and unreasonable use of tasers.” Officers also “discharged firearms at people without assessing the person presents any threat, let alone a threat that would justify deadly force.”
The report found that, of 19 police shootings that occurred between Jan. 2016 and Aug. 2022, a “significant portion of them were unconstitutional uses of deadly force.” Garland gave one example: the 2017 shooting of an unarmed women, who’d called the cops to report a sexual assault in a nearby alley. The officer said he shot the woman because she had “spooked” him when she approached his squad car.
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