"The police force responsible for George Floyd's death three years earlier, the DOJ wrote, regularly "uses unreasonable deadly force," "unlawfully retaliates against people who observe and record their activities," and "fails to adequately discipline police misconduct." The department also engaged in the "inherently dangerous and almost always counterproductive" practice of shooting at moving cars. In one case, an officer who had the time and space to move out of the path of an escaping vehicle instead fired four shots at it."
""Look at how much things change," Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara told me when I asked him about the 2023 DOJ report and the current federal operation. "Now we're the ones trying to honor people's rights, honor people's ability to yell at us, to protest, to record the police and say nasty things without escalating, trying to protect people's human dignity in interactions. It's incredibly ironic.""
A federal review found the Minneapolis Police Department regularly used unreasonable deadly force, unlawfully retaliated against people who observed and recorded police, and failed to adequately discipline misconduct. The department engaged in shooting at moving cars, a practice labeled inherently dangerous and almost always counterproductive; one officer fired four shots at an escaping vehicle despite having time and space to move away. The Justice Department declined to investigate Renee Nicole Good's death and reportedly pushed to probe the actions of the person who recorded the shooting. Local officers committed to deescalation have been disoriented by contrasting federal tactics.
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