As the fifth anniversary of George Floyd‘s murder approaches, the Trump administration has dealt a gut punch to communities demanding police accountability. In a sweeping rollback of civil rights enforcement, the DOJ is shutting down federal oversight agreements in Minneapolis and Louisville — two cities where investigators previously found rampant police abuse, excessive force and systemic racism.
That means no more federal push for reform in the city where Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck. No more binding accountability in Louisville, where Breonna Taylor was killed in her home.
The DOJ is also closing civil rights investigations into six other cities, including Memphis, Phoenix and Lexington, where findings include officers punching restrained individuals, deploying canines on children and tasering men until they collapsed.
Trump’s DOJ claims the Biden-era investigations were “micromanagement” and based on flawed methodology.
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