The State of Minnesota has decided to bring charges against the Minneapolis police department.
The department has been hit with a civil rights charge that comes one week of the death of George Floyd. Minnesota’s Governor, Tim Walz, made the announcement on Twitter. See the tweets below.
Our Minnesota Department of Human Rights today filed a civil rights charge against the MPD. @mnhumanrights will investigate the department’s policies, procedures, and practices over the past 10 years to determine if they engaged in systemic discriminatory practices.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) June 2, 2020
My administration will use every tool at our disposal to deconstruct generations of systemic racism in Minnesota. This effort is one of many steps to come in our effort to restore trust with communities that have been unseen and unheard for far too long.
— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) June 2, 2020
Reports state that the Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero’s agency served the city of Minneapolis at 1 p.m. Lucero also released a statement on her expectations on this case.
“We’re really hoping that this is something we can move very quickly on, because of shared values and goals around this issue.”
The Minneapolis City Council also stated that they would help out.