Summary
The Minneapolis City Council approved a federal consent decree to overhaul police training and use-of-force policies following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
The agreement mandates officers prioritize human life, respect dignity, and avoid bias in the use of force.
The reforms stem from a 2023 Department of Justice report that found systematic discrimination, excessive force, and constitutional violations in the department.
An independent monitor and court oversight will enforce the changes, with federal and state consent decrees shaping the city’s police reform efforts for years to come.
That was 5 years ago. What’s with the fucking hold up; the fat, doughnut-eating, trigger-happy, right-wing gun-nut, klan-members that are the police force there didn’t wanna agree to not systematically discriminate and/or use excessive force, huh?
The Justice Department had to make sure the agreement they entered with the city looked impressive but didn’t actually do anything that could ever lead to anyone being held accountable, that kind of careful lawyering takes time
This is advanced skullduggery!
But yeah, no one was ever going to do anything about anything. Why would they? It’s not like they actually care about you people. And it’s not like my country isn’t a trainwreck on fire sinking fast into a swamp, but at least our cops are given an education longer than that of a barber’s before being given a position of authority, with deadly force to enforce. But, given how much my country nowadays loves to ape whatsoever daddy Amerikkka has done or is doing (I’m looking at you currently-being-privatized once-public healthcare and fascists in the government!), I ain’t exactly holding out hope for the future of our police force.
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Goddam, It’s not even 11am and I’m barely even awake yet, and I’ve already lost hope for the future. But I have borderline, so it’s normal, usual even, for me to go through many emotions within a short period of time. So much so that I like to jokingly refer to these kinds of cases as “going through the entire spectrum of human emotion until I just feel hollow”. Which often happens in the mornings, now that I think about it, after I have read the news and doomscrolled for a while. Funny how it goes like that.