A federal judge on Tuesday granted the United States request to reject his consent decree against the city of Minneapolis.
In the file, the court declares: “The court has serious doubts about the consent decree proposed in the service of public interest.” The document adds that the consent decree is “superfluous” due to the city’s police department and Minneapolis concludes an agreement with the ministry of the rights of the minnesota man.
The consent decree is part of a Rules describing radical reforms at the Minneapolis police service. A two -year DOJ survey launched after The murder of George Floyd find MPD is engaged in a model of racist and abusive behavior who have violated the civil rights of residents.
But Tuesday’s deposit indicates that the decree of the investigation and consent of the Ministry of Justice does not include data on the city or the MPD violating the law.
“Without this information, no court could assess whether the proposed consent decree sufficiently addresses the allegations of the complaint,” said the document.
The American lawyer’s office tabled to reject the consent decree Wednesday.
The judge also concluded that the “considerable sum” of taxpayers’ money allocated to the surveillance and execution of the consent decree would be better spent to hire the police to “strengthen the city’s police forces” and promote public security.
Several heads of state of Minneapolis and the State declared last week that despite being dismissed before the Federal Court, the consent decree would continue under the city’s agreement with the state of Minnesota.
Mayor Jacob Frey and police chief Brian O’Hara added that the city was attached to the police reform, despite the request of the federal government to reject the decree.
“The main thing is that we do it anyway. We will implement each reform of the 169 -page consent decree,” said Frey. “Minneapolis makes great progress in police reform, and we do not need the authorization of Washington or a federal judge to continue to move forward.”
