Hennepin County Judge signed court order filed by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights Hennepin County Court today approved the proposed court order filed by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) that requires the Minneapolis Police Department to implement initial structural changes, as part of MDHR’s ongoing civil rights investigation. The court has the power to […]
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What does ending the Minneapolis Police Department mean? (updated)
Dismantling the MPD will take time and community involvement and will be strenuously resisted by the police.
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State, City of Minneapolis agree on immediate changes to ban chokeholds, reform MPD policies
Governor Tim Walz announced next steps in the civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department following the death of George Floyd.
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Noor trial faces MPD’s ‘blue wall of silence’
Now well into its third week, the trial of former police officer Mohamed Noor has put the Minneapolis Police Department’s “blue wall of silence” in the forefront, along with issues of transparency and inconsistencies amongst its officers.
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Protesters take to the streets of Edina to demand police accountability
Over 100 protesters rallied Saturday to protest racial profiling by police, and specifically the treatment of a Black pedestrian by an Edina police officer last week. On Oct. 12, Larnie Thomas, a Black man, was videotaped being stopped and grabbed by the back of his jacket by White Edina police officer Tim Olson while walking […]
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Organizers host summit to ‘seize momentum’ on police reform
Current practices traced back to early slave patrols Police brutality toward Black men in the United States has been a recurrent topic in the Black community. The killings of Alton Sterling, Terrence Clutcher, Walter Scott and others around the country, and locally Philando Castile and Jamar Clark, compelled the Northside organization Neighborhoods Organizing for Change […]