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On the same day a former Minneapolis Police Department officer was sentenced in the death of George Floyd, Chief Brian O'Hara announced a new structure for the department intended to improve community trust. Starting Monday, the department was split into two divisions: one for operations and the other for community trust. Those divisions are led by two newly created assistant chief positions. ...
"While we have a job as a city, it’s on the community as well,” Frey said at a press conference regarding the night of incidents. "If you have children that were out last night, you need to know where they are."
Copy shortlink: Sometime around noon on the day after George Floyd died while pleading for breath under a police officer's knee, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo summoned his top staff to a meeting in his office. He told them that he was leaning toward firing the officer, Derek Chauvin, and three of his colleagues who were involved in Floyd's arrest, but that he wanted a second opinion before any decision, according to interviews and documents describing the nature of the meeting obtained by the Star Tribune. In terminating the officers less than 24 hours aft...