DOJ to End Police Reform Agreements, Investigations Into Departments

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced it will end its agreements to secure court-approved settlements with the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor five years ago. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said her office will seek to dismiss the pending litigation against the two cities and retract the department’s prior findings of constitutional violations. “Overbroad police consent decrees divest local control of policing from communities where it belongs, turning that power over to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, often with an anti-police agenda,” Dhillon said in a statement on Wednesday....