The Minneapolis City Council on Friday approved an agreement with the state of Minnesota to revamp the city’s troubled police department nearly three years after the police killing of George Floyd.
last year that found Minneapolis police had routinely engaged in racially discriminatory policing for at least a decade and had failed to properly train and hold its officers accountable for misconduct.
The settlement includes a litany of new rules limiting and providing more accountability about the use of force along with fresh restrictions on stops, searches and arrests, including a ban on stopping cars for low-level offenses like expired license tabs or failing to signal. It issues new requirements about officer wellness and training, including mandatory instruction on issues of race and “challenges related to racism, race inequity and race relations in policing in the city of Minneapolis.
The state investigation, launched just days after Floyd’s killing, found that Minneapolis officers had stopped, searched, ticketed, used force on and killed people of color at a higher rate than White people. While Black people make just 19 percent of the city’s population, Black individuals accounted for 63 percent of the department’s use-of-force incidents over the past decade, according to the report.State investigators described a deeply entrenched culture of racism and misogyny.
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