Minneapolis Police Data Shows Racial Disparities In Use-Of-Force Cases

From CBS Minnesota:

By Jennifer Mayerle

August 24, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A controversial police restraint left dozens of suspects unconscious in the years before George Floyd’s death.

It’s the use of force by a former Minneapolis police officer that moved so many to tears and anger and frustration. A knee on George Floyd’s neck for several minutes. After his death, we’d learn neck restraints and chokeholds were approved uses of force in Minneapolis. Officials banned them three weeks later.

WCCO requested police data to find out how often officers in Minneapolis used neck restraints during an encounter. University of St. Thomas professor Manjeet Rege helped boil down the data.

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