The Minneapolis City Council is meeting behind closed doors to discuss a potential settlement in a lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights following the murder of George Floyd.
The Department issued a scathing report last year critical of how police officers were trained and detailing how MPD had engaged in racial discrimination in many areas over several years.
University of St. Thomas Law Professor Mark Osler joined News Talk 830 WCCO’s Adam Carter and Jordana Green to discuss the potential settlement.
“What the report addressed was that the training was both deficient and paramilitary in style. Which is going to lead to the kind of tragedy we saw with George Floyd,” Osler said. “They also found there was insufficient accountability for officers who had done bad things.”
The City of Minneapolis and state officials are also negotiating a “consent decree,” which would determine police department practices moving forward that are legally enforceable.
“One of the things that hopefully the consent decree will take into consideration is the need to bring in new officers and to do it in a new way,” Osler said.
The U.S. Department of Justice is doing its own investigation into whether or not the department has engaged in unlawful practices.
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