It is not unexpected, but the U.S. Department of Justice is requesting a pause in the new federal consent decree agreement between the Department of Justice and the Minneapolis Police Department.
The agreement details specific reforms regarding police conduct the MPD must implement following the 2020 killing of George Floyd by former officer Derek Chauvin.
It has not yet been approved by a federal judge but in January, the Minneapolis City Council voted to move forward with the consent decree. Officials with the city had hoped a judge would make a quick decision before President Trump’s new Justice Department started to rollback some of the Biden Administration’s civil rights reforms. It had been under negotiation since the Department of Justice issued a scathing critique of the city’s police in June 2023 …