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From Reuters: WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is ending efforts to secure agreements for federal oversight of police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, despite a prior government finding they routinely violated the civil rights of Black people.
In a major rollback of federal civil rights investigations, the Justice Department said on Wednesday it was also ending investigations and rescinding findings of misconduct into six other police departments, deeming the probes – many launched following a 2020 wave of worldwide protests over racial justice – as overreaching.
“Federal micro-management of local police should be a rare exception, and not the norm,” Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the department’s Civil Rights Division, told reporters. She said control of police belongs with their communities rather than unelected bureaucrats.
Dhillon announced that her office will attepmt to dismiss the lawsuit against the two cities and take back the department’s earlier decision that they violated the constitution.
🚨 JUST IN: Trump DOJ ABANDONS lawsuits against the police departments involved in the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor incidents at Harmeet Dhillon's direction – Reuters
THE INSANITY is ending.
"Her office will seek to dismiss the pending litigation against the two cities and… pic.twitter.com/5dJysoDuqq
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 21, 2025
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— Reuters (@Reuters) May 21, 2025
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