‘Years of unlawful discrimination against black Americans’ found at Minneapolis police dept

The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, held a press conference to announce that the 2020 murder of George Floyd was part of a ‘pattern or practice’ of ‘excessive force used by the department and years of unlawful discrimination against black Americans’. And the findings of a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice into the Minneapolis police department have been revealed. The investigation focused on the conduct and training of police officers before and after the death of George Floyd at the hands of officers