“Our investigation found that the systemic problems in MPD made what happened to George Floyd possible,” the report states.
Racial discriminationThe investigation also found that MPD officers disproportionately stop and use force against Black and Native American people.
“We estimate that MPD stops Black people at 6.5 times the rate at which it stops White people, given their shares of the population.
How the fatal arrest of George Floyd unfolded 04:33 - Source: CNNGarland outlined several incidents where MPD officers were not held accountable for racist conduct until public outrage surfaced.
“For example,” Garland said Friday, “after MPD officers stopped a car carrying four Somalian-American teens, one officer told the teens, ‘Do you remember what happened in Black Hawk Down.
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