MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis City Council voted 12-0 to accept federal court supervision of reforms of police practices. Acceptance of the consent decree closes another chapter in the wake of the 2020 police killing of a black man, George Floyd, by white police officers. The 171-page agreement specific reforms to ban race, gender and ethnicity as factors in using force. The slaying of Geore Floyd triggered national racial unrest and prompted a U.S. Justice Department investigation that found long-standing and systematic racusm in Minneapolis policing.
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