U.S. Justice Department opens policing investigation over Breonna Taylor death Dave Goldiner
The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor who was shot to death by police during a raid at her home, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday.
It’s the second such probe into a law enforcement agency by the Biden administration in a week; Garland also announced an investigation into the tactics of the police in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd.
The nation’s top law enforcement official announced the so-called “patterns and practices” probe into whether cops in Kentucky’s largest city violate people’s civil rights or routinely act in racially discriminatory ways.
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Optimism on police reform in the Capitol collides with anguish in the streets
Updated 12:05 AM ET, Sun April 25, 2021
What could police reform look like? 00000025.png (CNN)As President Joe Biden looks to build momentum for police reform in his address to a joint session of Congress this week, there is some optimism in Washington about the potential for a bipartisan compromise that would finally create movement on the issue. But beyond the beltway, there is also deep frustration and anger in the streets of America as young men and women of color keep getting injured and killed by police.
While the murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd last May, demonstrated accountability in one case that was a cause for celebration among activists last week the troubling series of police shootings just in the days that followed has underscored how one verdict will not produce the kind of transformational societal and cultural change tha
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Attorney General Merrick Garland will meet with leaders of some of the nation s largest law enforcement organizations and unions Friday afternoon, according to law enforcement officials familiar with the situation.
The meeting comes in the wake of the Department of Justice s announcement of a pattern and practices investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department.
Garland will be joined by recently confirmed top DOJ officials Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and the department s number-three official, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta.
Fox News has learned the meeting will take place at 1 p.m. ET and will involve leaders from some of the largest law enforcement associations.