Minnesota Legislature passes package of police accountability measures that includes a ban on neck restraints like the one that was used on George Floyd before his death in Minneapolis.
The Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and other federal agencies have been sent into Portland, angering the governor.ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Minnesota Legislature passed a package of police accountability measures early Tuesday that includes a ban on neck restraints like the one that was used on George Floyd before his death in Minneapolis.
Passage of the measures comes after nearly two months of negotiations that followed Floyd's death May 25. The Black man was restrained face down in the street while handcuffed and with three officers holding him down, including a white officer who had a knee to Floyd's neck for nearly 8 minutes. The legislation also improves data collection around deadly force encounters and creates a new state unit to investigate those cases. It increases funding for crisis intervention training, creates an arbitration panel to handle police misconduct cases and establishes incentives for officers to live in the communities they police, the Star Tribune reported.
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