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Nelson’s actions in all three cases were outlined in a criminal complaint, eyewitness accounts, and police dashcam video obtained by The Associated Press. In the past decade, Nelson has been investigated in more than 60 use-of-force cases that involved choking suspects until they passed out, severe dog bites, and physical force that required medical care. But he was not on the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s list that flags officers whose credibility is in question due to misconduct – a...

Sand here? >> it looks like senate democrats are maybe going to jump the track a little bit sooner. when you look at senate democrats, theyre already thinking about going down that reconciliation route, which is 50%. my colleague, alayna treene that has some good reporting on this, theyre preparing to go down that route. the white house seems like theyll give this until memorial day. thats the rest of this week. when you talk to white house officials, they do seem interested in a bipartisan deal...

Minnesota Reformer Getty Images. If plumbers spent as much time giving each other awards as journalists, the streets would be flooded with water spewing from unfixed pipes.  That said, I’m proud that the I hope in some small way it catalyzes a movement for better access to public records. (And obviously a better police department.) There’s no more important role for the free press than scrutinizing state power, and no institution is invested with more power than the police, who can le...

Updated 4 hours ago Wandering Police Officers Big Impediment To Reform: Report A 2020 study showed officers who move to other police departments often run into disciplinary problems after they are rehired. William H. Freivogel and Paul Wagman/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting ST. LOUIS (AP) — Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his father. He got a job in Independence, Ohio, but it didn’t go well. His supervisors allowed him to quit after he suffered a “dangerous lack of...

Survey: Non-white residents feel MPD officers not held accountable for misconduct Recent news investigations have found complaints against officers dont often lead to discipline. Author: Many non-white residents believe that officers in the Minneapolis Police Department are not held accountable for their misconduct, a new survey says.  The survey, conducted by the Leadership Conference Education Fund in the months before and after George Floyds May 25 death during his arrest by now-former MPD ...

>> absolutely, i want to explain how did it and i want to declassify all information possible to let you see what went in the report and i will start calling people. this is a big deal. if a court was fed bad information by bad cops, department of justice who had a political agenda to get a warrant against american citizen and we do nothing about it, we are encouraging the breakdown of rule of law, somebody needs to be punished for misleading the court, lying to the court, the counter intelligen...