MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The Department of Justice will reportedly impose a consent decree upon the City of Minneapolis after the city and federal governments came to a tentative agreement that could heavily impact the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The consent decree has been in the works since at least June 2023 and comes in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding the death of George Floyd while in police custody.
As reported by MPR News, an investigation by the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice found that MPD Officers “unjustifiable deadly force” against Floyd and claimed the Department engaged in racial profiling for several years.
Initial reporting from the Minnesota Star Tribune on Tuesday indicated that a tentative agreement had been reached following the announcement of a special Monday city council meeting with the city attorney by Mayor Jacob Frey. The meeting according to the newspaper will pertain to the DOJ’s “potential litigation and resolution possibilities concerning the city of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Police Department.”
According to the Tribune, the city council will be voting on the agreement after a closed-door session and an agreement could be enacted before President-elect Trump taking office on January 20th.
Speaking to his officers in the video message, Police Chief Brian O'Hara said that a consent decree could present both challenges and opportunities. He said, “This is our city and our opportunity to lead the way forward and to set the standard for policing in this country.”
“When we focus on the right priorities — supporting one another, engaging with our community, and remaining committed to our shared values — we can and we will navigate this process successfully and emerge stronger,” he said according to MPR.
In June, Dr. Travis Yates, a police training expert warned Liz Collin of Alpha News that a consent decree in Minneapolis would lead to two things: “crime skyrockets, cops leave.”
He told Collins, “I’ve been speaking on these issues for many, many years, and specifically I’ve spoken on this issue at the Minneapolis Police Department for years. This hasn’t made me popular with a few in your city, but popularity doesn’t change things. Popularity doesn’t make the community safer. So, I’m not really interested in that. My desire is to see our community safer.”
Yates, a critic of Frey’s after the Mayor banned so-called “warrior training,” which Dr. Yates noted didn’t exist, said that training, officer safety, and tactics will be complicated “with not one consent decree, but two consent decrees, the state and a federal consent decree … the disaster you’re currently seeing in Minneapolis is only beginning. That’s not a prediction. That’s not an opinion. That’s a fact because I have studied in every city under a consent decree in the last 30 years and understand this.”
As reported by MPR News, an investigation by the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice found that MPD Officers “unjustifiable deadly force” against Floyd and claimed the Department engaged in racial profiling for several years.
Initial reporting from the Minnesota Star Tribune on Tuesday indicated that a tentative agreement had been reached following the announcement of a special Monday city council meeting with the city attorney by Mayor Jacob Frey. The meeting according to the newspaper will pertain to the DOJ’s “potential litigation and resolution possibilities concerning the city of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Police Department.”
According to the Tribune, the city council will be voting on the agreement after a closed-door session and an agreement could be enacted before President-elect Trump taking office on January 20th.
Speaking to his officers in the video message, Police Chief Brian O'Hara said that a consent decree could present both challenges and opportunities. He said, “This is our city and our opportunity to lead the way forward and to set the standard for policing in this country.”
“When we focus on the right priorities — supporting one another, engaging with our community, and remaining committed to our shared values — we can and we will navigate this process successfully and emerge stronger,” he said according to MPR.
In June, Dr. Travis Yates, a police training expert warned Liz Collin of Alpha News that a consent decree in Minneapolis would lead to two things: “crime skyrockets, cops leave.”
He told Collins, “I’ve been speaking on these issues for many, many years, and specifically I’ve spoken on this issue at the Minneapolis Police Department for years. This hasn’t made me popular with a few in your city, but popularity doesn’t change things. Popularity doesn’t make the community safer. So, I’m not really interested in that. My desire is to see our community safer.”
Yates, a critic of Frey’s after the Mayor banned so-called “warrior training,” which Dr. Yates noted didn’t exist, said that training, officer safety, and tactics will be complicated “with not one consent decree, but two consent decrees, the state and a federal consent decree … the disaster you’re currently seeing in Minneapolis is only beginning. That’s not a prediction. That’s not an opinion. That’s a fact because I have studied in every city under a consent decree in the last 30 years and understand this.”
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2025-01-04T18:06-0500 | Comment by: James
The pigs have NO sanction in ANY Founding document to even exist in THIS country ...... They are a for profit foreign corporation MASQUERADING as government .... The pigs / police have NO jurisdiction and NO authority over ANY AMERICAN .... When the pigs violate OUR RIGHTS, WE HAVE the authority, and the jurisdiction to BLOW their OATH violating FILTH heads off .... Founding Documents PRESCRIBE IT AS DUTY ....