The DOJ released a scathing report accusing the Minneapolis police of systemic discrimination and abuse of constitutional rights. 'The patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible,' Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
released Friday, accusing the department of systemic racial and behavioral discrimination—years before the death of, a Minneapolis police officer who murdered Floyd the previous May by pinning his knee onto Floyd’s neck for nearly 10 minutes as three other officers looked on. The report found that before Chauvin murdered Floyd, the officer had used excessive force in other incidents in which “multiple other M.P.D. officers stood by.
The DOJ report alleges a pattern of “excessive force, including unjustified deadly force” concentrated on the city’s Black and Native American residents. Between 2016 and mid-2022, the report uncovered nearly 200 instances of Minneapolis officers using neck restraints like the one Chauvin used on Floyd; some officers continued the practice even after the city banned them in June 2020.
Police, the report said, “used dangerous techniques and weapons against people who committed at most a petty offense and sometimes no offense at all” and “used force to punish people who made officers angry or criticized the police.”said, “The patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible.
“As I told George Floyd’s family this morning, his death has had an irrevocable impact on the Minneapolis community, on our country and on the world,” Garland said. “His loss is still felt deeply by those who loved and knew him and by many who did not. George Floyd should be alive today.”called the DOJ report “objective” and “thorough.” “We understand that change is non-negotiable,” he said.
The city will likely soon start negotiations with the federal government on the terms of a court-enforced consent decree, which would put the Minneapolis police under federal supervision. “Consent decrees have been a useful tool for making progress on police reform in other cities,” Frey
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