The Minneapolis Police Department is under a civil rights investigation. | Pixabay
The Minneapolis Police Department is under a civil rights investigation. | Pixabay
Minnesota has launched a civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department.
“This is one piece of the puzzle to getting justice for George Floyd and all black Minnesotans who have not been served or protected by the Minneapolis Police Department,” Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan told WCCO.
WCCO reports the investigation will examine practices, policies and procedures of the police department over the past decade.
“This is not a report,” Minnesota Department of Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero, who will lead the investigation, told WCCO. “This is something that will result in court action and require change.”
The investigation is long overdue, according to Lucero.
“Community leaders have been asking for structural change for decades,” Lucero told WCCO. “Working for it, bleeding for it and dying for it.”
The Minneapolis Police Department has been under fire following the death of Floyd on May 25. The white officer who pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes has been charged with second-degree murder, according to NBC News. The three other officers that were present at the scene are also facing charges.
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