While the Justice Department still investigates individual police officers, it has significantly scaled back its investigations of police agencies.
Experts say knee-to-neck restraint is dangerous. Minneapolis allows iThe swift action by local officials suggests there might not be a need for a broader, federal investigation of the police department, said Arthur Rizer, a former Justice Department lawyer and senior fellow at the public policy research firm R Street Institute.
Christy Lopez, a former Justice Department lawyer who investigated the Ferguson Police Department under the Obama administration, said it's difficult to say whether Minneapolis police should be the subject of a consent decree absent more information.George Floyd's death another wound for Minneapolis' black community: 'Why can't I just be black in the state of Minnesota?'
Jon Shane, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, cautions against having a"mob mentality." He warns that the swift actions of Minneapolis officials maybe hasty. And even if the prosecution is successful, it would not address the systemic issues that allowed such misconduct to happen in the first place, Smith said."That's not going prevent the next tragedy."
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