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The Minneapolis police are in consent decree hell
Washington Examiner ^ | January 9, 2025 | Zachary Faria

Posted on 01/09/2025 3:02:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Minneapolis became the battleground for a national activist-driven debate about defunding police departments. The Democrats running the city are so beholden to those activists that the ensuing years in Minneapolis have been all about police reforms, and not about those surge in murders that the city has been unable to handle.

The Minneapolis City Council (made up of 12 Democrats and one official socialist) voted 12-0 in favor of a consent decree with the Department of Justice to oversee police reform in the city. Police reform has been the dominant narrative surrounding Minneapolis since police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd in 2020.

Since the beginning, it hasn’t been clear exactly what magical “reform” was needed here: Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and ended up being convicted of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 22 years in state prison (and then, separately, 21 years in federal prison). You can’t exactly make what Chauvin did any more illegal than it already was.

Yet, the march toward these magical reforms continues on. According to local reporters Jay Kolls and Renée Cooper, based on previous consent decrees with other cities, “it could involve changes to the use of force or bias awareness training,” the latter being the racial pseudoscience that asserts that everyone is secretly racist and lets their secretly racist thoughts control their actions.

The most interesting part in all of this is that Minneapolis is enthusiastic about accommodating the Department of Justice’s plan to babysit the city and its police department, to the point that the city has gone along with the DOJ’s attempts to rush this agreement to a judge before Jan. 20. That is when Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president, putting such a deal in jeopardy. On top of that, Minneapolis...


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: minneapolis; minnesota; police
Saint George "Fentanyl" Floyd lives!
1 posted on 01/09/2025 3:02:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Chauvin followed official policy as illustrated in official training videos. He did no wrong.
In fact, Chauvin never kneeled on the monster's neck. He kneeled on its shoulder.

2 posted on 01/09/2025 3:09:10 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
My city is too! We have a hemorrhaging police force and lots of crime!
3 posted on 01/09/2025 3:19:55 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

GEORGE FLOYD KILLED GEORGE FLOYD.

FENTANYL


4 posted on 01/09/2025 3:20:19 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Consent decrees are about Federalizing policing in Cities, States and then the entire US.


5 posted on 01/09/2025 3:27:55 PM PST by Glad2bnuts
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To: Glad2bnuts

Then a national police force, AKA gestapo.


6 posted on 01/09/2025 3:28:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
...since police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd in 2020.

Police officer Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd. George Floyd killed himself with drugs.

7 posted on 01/09/2025 3:42:18 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: OpusatFR

Chicago too, for quite some time too many of the recruits they have been pumping out of the academy look like they came straight from the island of misfit toys. Add in some gang members and others with questionable backgrounds and its no wonder the department is in a decline.


8 posted on 01/09/2025 3:47:52 PM PST by dznutz
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To: DiogenesLamp

That’s right. The only one to blame for the death of George Floyd is George Floyd.


9 posted on 01/09/2025 3:49:26 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This putrid piece of crap article by the lying sack of shit Zachary Faria is disgusting. The procedure Chauvin used to secure Floyd was in all the training manuals and was taught to all the Minneapolis police but the judge in the case wouldn't allow that to be testified to at trial. Chauvin did not kill Floyd and wasn't putting his knee on his neck. Floyd did not die of asphyxiation and that was reported in the autopsy report. Floyd died by a self inflicted drug overdose but leftist liars like Faria just can't help themselves.
10 posted on 01/09/2025 4:02:09 PM PST by Bullish (Socialism is a weed that blooms into communism, the tyranny that strangles liberty.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and ended up being convicted of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 22 years in state prison (and then, separately, 21 years in federal prison). You can’t exactly make what Chauvin did any more illegal than it already was.

This is all lies. Every word of it is a lie.


11 posted on 01/09/2025 4:31:27 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: ro_dreaming

Who in their right mind would want to be a cop for the Minneapolis Police Department?


12 posted on 01/09/2025 4:31:52 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ro_dreaming
Chauvin had kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes...

He kneeled on his shoulder in accord with official policy.

13 posted on 01/09/2025 4:38:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yep, that is the goal.


14 posted on 01/09/2025 4:39:31 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s my point - everything in the article is a lie. Chauvin never knelt on Floyd’s neck - not once.

Floyd had huge amounts of fentenyl in his system, among other drugs.


15 posted on 01/09/2025 6:13:19 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: ro_dreaming

Sorry. Missed it.


16 posted on 01/09/2025 6:17:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Go to Alphanews.org and watch The Fall of Minneapolis to see the fiasco of a trial that convicted the cops. They had to or Minneapolis would have burned. George Floyd killed himself with drugs and now they praise this criminal druggie.


17 posted on 01/09/2025 8:03:36 PM PST by From The Deer Stand (Mpl)
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