The federal consent decree formalizes many policies that the police department put in place when the world’s attention was on Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder in 2020 that are also in the settlement with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.

The agreement outlines how the Minneapolis Police Department will reform its training, discipline, and policies to address systemic problems.

The DOJ announced Minneapolis agreed to make systemic reforms to its police department after the 2020 murder of George Floyd sparked a federal probe.

A federal probe found the Minneapolis Police Department engaged in systematic discrimination and had a pattern of violating residents' constitutional rights. A new agreement between the city and the DOJ hopes to fix it.

A man who preferred not to give his name takes a moment at the George Floyd memorial during the annual Rise and Remember Festival near the place where Floyd was murdered three years ago by a police officer,

The Minneapolis City Council voted in favor of the proposed consent decree between the Department of Justice and the City of Minneapolis during a closed hearing session on Monday,

With only two weeks left in the Biden administration, officials hurried to finalize a plan in the city where George Floyd was murdered.