Minneapolis and its police racially discriminate and violate human rights, investigation finds 2 years after George Floyd’s murder

• The Minnesota Division of Human Rights revealed the findings of its civil rights probe into the Minneapolis Police Division.
• It discovered that Minneapolis and its police division engaged in an illegal sample or observe of racial discrimination. 
• The state’s probe was launched days after George Floyd’s killing by the hands of metropolis police.

The Minnesota Division of Human Rights on Wednesday revealed the findings of its civil rights probe into the Minneapolis Police Division following a roughly two-year investigation that was launched days after George Floyd’s killing by the hands of metropolis police.

The state company discovered that town of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Division engaged in an illegal sample or observe of racial discrimination during the last decade.

Minnesota Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero stated at a press briefing that “this sample of race-based policing is brought about primarily by an organizational tradition” involving “flawed coaching,” “poor” accountability techniques and an absence motion on the a part of metropolis and police management. 

The company stated it can work with town of Minneapolis to develop a consent decree to require adjustments throughout the police division. 

The Minnesota Division of Human Rights reviewed an enormous quantity of knowledge over a 10-year interval between Jan. 1, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2020 from police stops, searches, arrests, use of pressure, insurance policies, procedures, trainings, interviews, and ride-alongs in its probe. 

The investigation discovered that MPD officers use larger charges of extra extreme pressure in opposition to Black people than white people in related circumstances.

Police knowledge confirmed that 63% of all use of pressure incidents that MPD officers recorded had been in opposition to Black people, although Black folks make up about 19% of the Minneapolis inhabitants, in keeping with the company’s 72-page report. 

“Officers are usually not held accountable due to ineffective accountability and oversight techniques, which contribute to a sample of discriminatory policing,” the report says. 

The investigation additionally discovered that MPD officers usually tend to cease autos with folks of coloration and Indigenous people due to their race and that they deal with Black and white people otherwise throughout site visitors stops due to race.

MPD officers, the report says, “use covert social media to focus on Black leaders, Black organizations, and elected officers with no public security goal.”

“Some MPD officers and supervisors use racist, misogynistic, and disrespectful language,” the report says, which provides that “officers are educated to be aggressive in direction of neighborhood members, escalating conditions and sometimes utilizing inappropriate ranges of pressure.”

“In line with physique worn digicam footage, self-discipline data, statements from neighborhood members, and interviews with MPD officers, some MPD officers and supervisors use racial slurs,” the report says. “They name Black people ‘n—–s’ and ‘monkeys’ and name Black girls ‘Black bitches.’”

Minneapolis cops have reported that their colleagues known as fellow Black MPD officers “nappy head” and “cattle,” in keeping with the report.

The Minnesota Division of Human Rights started its investigation into the police division on June 1, 2020 — per week after Floyd was killed by former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin on Could 25, 2020. 

Chauvin, who’s white, was convicted of homicide within the dying of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, in June of final yr and sentenced to 22 1/2 years behind bars. 

The jury within the case discovered Chauvin responsible of second-degree homicide, third-degree homicide, and manslaughter after they heard proof that he kneeled on Floyd’s neck for greater than 9 minutes whereas Floyd was handcuffed on the bottom and pleading for his life. 

The three different former Minneapolis officers who had been with Chauvin when he killed Floyd had been convicted on federal costs of violating Floyd’s civil rights. They face a state trial in June. 

Floyd’s dying sparked nationwide and international protests in opposition to police brutality and for racial justice. 

A separate US Division of Justice investigation into the Minneapolis Police Division and town, which was launched final April, is ongoing.