Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says his officers are going to get more training on how to handle domestic abuse cases.
Minneapolis police will be retrained by the end of the year to respond to domestic violence, but some are saying that's not enough.
Simone Hunter's sister Mariah Samuels was shot to death last month after posting video of her boyfriend hitting her.
"If you think it's not real, I want you to go and look at all the records of all the black and brown people who die on a daily basis due to these things," says Hunter.
They claim Minneapolis police officers are trained to respond to domestic violence, but they aren't using that training.
Also speaking out about the MPD on Thursday in front of the Hennepin County Government Center were famly members Allison Lussier, who say calls were made to police about possible abuse by her former boyfriend.
The medical examiner report indicates Lussier suffered a brain injury before she died.
Despite that training for MPD officers, there are still those who don't believe this will do any good.
"They are trained. They had the the basic domestic abuse training, the basic de-escalation training. They're just simply not doing it," says Avon Winston, the cousin of Mariah Samuels.
"Her cries for safety were ignored," adds Hunter. "Her life should have been protected, and now she's gone."
There are only five investigators in MPD’s domestic assault unit, despite the growing number of domestic abuse calls officers field each year.
Domestic incidents marked the fifth-most common emergency call in the city during the first half of last year, according to police call data analyzed by the Minnesota Star Tribune. And they comprise roughly one-third of all aggravated assaults in Minneapolis since 2019.