The Latest Breaking News from Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS — Taylor Swift's Eras Tour coming to town this week is the biggest, best, most awesome thing to happen to the area since maybe the advent of electricity.

The victims were named by their local mosque as Sabiriin Ali, Sahra Gesaade, Salma Abdikadir, Sagal Hersi and Siham Adam, who were aged between 17 and 20

MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday morning, John Pope answered his phone while boarding a flight to Atlanta. The U.S. Department of Justice had just released the results of a scathing federal investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, including 28 recommendations for institutional change.

The Justice Department has issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints

Minneapolis police used gratuitous force, discriminated against black and Native American residents, and retaliated against people exercising their First Amendment rights.

The Justice Department, city and police will begin negotiations to set the terms of a consent decree, which will bring federal oversight to police

The investigation, launched a year after George Floyd's murder, is expected to result in a federal consent decree.

Attorney General Merrick Garland says ‘patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible’

Merrick Garland announces findings of Department of Justice investigation into department after Floyd’s killing by officers