Attorney General Merrick Garland. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM How Merrick Garland's DOJ Is Picking Up a Police Oversight Tool Dropped Under Trump
"It's my hope that this announcement is the beginning of many more announcements that are both enforcement, but also some of the other levers that the Department of Justice can pull to influence local jurisdictions around this very complicated and critical question of policing," said one Obama-era DOJ official.
April 21, 2021 at 06:50 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
One day after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of the murder of George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced his Justice Department had launched a civil investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department.
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