DOJ to drop lawsuits against city police departments: Minneapolis, Louisville, Phoenix & others
May 21, 2025
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as posted by the channelThe Justice Department said it is dismissing "Biden-era" lawsuits against the Louisville and Minneapolis police departments and is in the process of unwinding investigations into several other police departments.
Many of the consent decrees they reviewed were "reliant on faulty legal theories," DOJ officials said, though they declined to provide specifics citing the privileged nature of the investigations.
The Civil Rights Division will also be closing its investigations into, and retracting the Biden administration’s findings of constitutional violations on the part of, the following additional local police departments: Phoenix, Arizona, Trenton, New Jersey, Memphis, Tennessee, Mount Vernon, New York, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Louisiana State Police.
The news comes just four days before the five-year anniversary marking George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in 2020. His death touched off widespread protests and riots across the country, as well as pleas for police department reform.
The consent decree in Louisville was pending approval from a judge. The department was previously investigated following the killing of Breonna Taylor at her apartment in 2020.
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