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Minneapolis police engaged in racial discrimination, probe finds

Black motorists are ordered to the ground by police during a 2020 protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota against the killing of George Floyd [File: John Minchillo/AP Photo]

The Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in an illegal “pattern or practice” of racial discrimination, according to a state investigation that started after George Floyd was killed by an officer in the US city in 2020.

In a report released on Wednesday detailing the findings of a nearly two-year probe, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights concluded that Minneapolis police discriminated against Black people during the past decade.

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