Washington – The Ministry of Justice said on Wednesday that it had started the process of rejecting lawsuits against the police departments in Luisville, Kentucky, Minynabolis, MinnesotaAnd an end to the investigations that were launched during the administration of former President Joe Biden. It will also place the proposed accountability agreements with the departments.
The Trump administration said that the approval ceremonies proposed by the Biden administration sought to subjugate the Luisville and Minneapolis police stations to comprehensive conditions that exceed the accusations of unconstitutional behavior, and would have led to “years of accurate management” of local departments.
Federal participation started after death George Floyd By Mininapolis Police and Briona Taylor in Louisville police Fire in 2020.
“The approval of the Overbroud police has ahead of the withdrawal of local control over the police from the societies to which it belongs, and that power is transformed into unaccomable bureaucrats, and they often have an anti -police agend.” “Today, we end Biden’s failed civil rights experience of incurring local leaders and police departments with unjustified approval decrees in reality.”
In addition to taking steps to reject lawsuits against the Luisville and Minneapolis police stations, the Trump administration also said it concludes investigations into the Phenix police stations; Trenton, New Jersey; Memphis Mount Vernon, New York; Oklahoma City and Louisiana State Police. The Trump administration said it is retracting the results of the Biden administration for unconstitutional violations by all eight departments called, and is looking forward to rejecting more than ten other approval decrees throughout the country.
The decision of the Ministry of Justice to drop the lawsuits against the departments of Luisville and Minneapolis just a few days before the five -year mark since the death of Floyd. Derek Choufin, a former Mininapolis police officer, was I am convicted in the state court On the charges of murder and unintentional murder to kill Floyd and went to Admit In the case of federal civil rights.
in presentation With the Federal Court of Minnesota in the case against the city of Minyabolis, the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice said that the government “will not be tried this issue.”
“After an intensive review by the Ministry of Justice and the current leadership of the Ministry of Civil Law, the United States no longer believes that the proposed approval decree will be in the public interest,” says the deposit, signed by Delon and others.
Approval decrees were used in federal investigations into law enforcement agencies during the Obama administration as part of a renewed commitment to civil rights and accountability cases. But the Ministry of Justice, during the first Trump administration, is restricting its use. This policy was canceled during the Biden administration. After that, the public lawyer, Merik Garland, opened an investigation into the Minayabolis Police Department.
Delon, the public prosecutor, told reporters that the approval ceremonies often put “unrealistic and ideal expectations that are just a recipe for non -compliance and the permanent approval decree of the judicial authorities.” But she said that if there is “a state of regular or systematic racist situations or excessive force that occurs despite training, despite litigation, although the application of local law may be these issues, approval decrees may be” a suitable vehicle. “
“In theory, we do not rule out that,” she added.
the For -year -old By the Ministry of Justice in the Minneapolis Police Administration, it was launched in 2021, following the death of Floyd, and found that the Minneapolis Police Administration targeted the indiscriminate black people and the indigenous people in law enforcement and used an unjustified force in many cases.
An investigation was conducted to determine whether the administration is involved in a “unconstitutional or unconstitutional” pattern or exercise. This civil investigation was separate from the federal criminal investigation into the death of Floyd, which led to the condemnation of three Minneapolis police officers who found that they failed to intervene to stop the use of Shafin for force against Floyd.
Researchers have recommended approximately 30 standards and treatment improvements for Minyabolis to implement them to combat racist variations and excessive use of strength by the administration, such as enhancing training and accountability measures, and improving data from police activity.
The city of Minneapolis and the Ministry of Justice entered into an agreement in principle to reach a approval decree assessing the court, which would clarify the federal results and recommendations, and to set independent monitoring of the police administration.
The Mennabolis City Council and Mayor Jacob Fry approved the conditions for the implementation decree in the court in early January, which was a federal judge’s approval before he entered into effect. The city began implementing the reforms established in the agreement and said it will continue to do so despite the Trump administration’s decision to reject the approval decree case.
“We are doing it anyway,” Fry said in a statement. “We will implement every reform described in the approval decree – because accountability is not optional. Our independent screen has praised the calm progress that we have achieved under the state settlement agreement, and the public can rely on clear and measurable evidence that our reforms are progressing.”
As for the Luisville Police Department, the Ministry of Justice has also found that it is also, You are likely to participate in a pattern of behavior It violates the civil and constitutional rights of citizens. The Ministry of Justice, the city of Luisville and its police administration have reached an agreement in principle towards the approval decree.
Four of Louisville Metro Police officers Federal charges faced Regarding Taylor’s death in March 2020. Taylor, 26, was shot when the officers stormed her apartment while she was sleeping with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend, who believed that the officers were infiltrated, fired a pistol when they entered. In response, the officers released 22 rounds in the apartment, and one of them hit Taylor in his chest.
But when announcing the decision to reject lawsuits against the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments, the Ministry of Justice claimed that it had accused the agencies of engaging in non -constitutional police patterns through “the wrong equation statistical variations with the intended discrimination and great dependence on defective methodologies and irregular data.”
The Trump administration also said that the approval ceremonies went too far and had undergone the police stations to comprehensive supervision.
The Ministry of Justice said: “In short, these comprehensive approval ceremonies have imposed years of the exact administration of local police departments by federal courts and expensive independent screens, and perhaps hundreds of millions of compliance costs, without a legally sufficient basis or realistically to do so.”
Delon said that the agreements cost an average of $ 10 million a year and “must be an exception, not the rule.” “Details of the police, politics, employment, training, administration, promotion and internal policies are better at the local level, where there is local accountability and local control over financing and politics issues,” she said.
Guests said that both Minyabolis and Louisfille either have approval decrees at the state level or employ their own screens and take measures alone to ensure the constitutional police, adding that cities should save money thanks to the decision of the Ministry of Justice.
“You can actually use these funds, tens of millions of dollars, to employ more policemen for your societies that will keep you safer than a partner in a large law firm in the capital that receives their salaries,” Delon said.
