DOJ to End Police Reform Agreements, Investigations Into Departments

They represented ‘a failed experiment of handcuffing local leaders and police departments with factually unjustified consent decrees,’ the DOJ said.

Minneapolis police insignia on uniform in a file photo. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced it will end its agreements to secure court-approved settlements with the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor five years ago.

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said her office will seek to dismiss the pending litigation against the two cities and retract the department’s prior findings of constitutional violations.