The Department of Justice has released a scathing report of the Minneapolis Police Department, shedding light on the culture of unlawful police violence and rampant racism that laid the groundwork for Floyd’s murder three years ago.
These problems are evident at nearly every step of MPD’s system of law enforcement, from police training and supervision to enforcement and accountability, the report found. These findings were gathered based on evidence from documents, body camera footage, incident files, ride-alongs with officers and other city staff and residents, and more.
Officials reviewed several cases in which MPD used deadly force in which there wasn’t even an apparent threat. In 2017, an MPD officer shot through an open car window and killed an unarmed woman who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault when she approached their squad car. Once, an officer fired his gun at a car full of six people who were being instructed by police to turn around after the car backed into his squad car.
The teenager survived, but MPD leadership didn’t even know that the incident had happened until Chauvin murdered Floyd three years later. This gap increases substantially when considering the rates of the use of force; for every one white person who experienced some form of force from MPD between January 2016 and August 2022, nine Black people and 14 Native American people were subject to force.
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