Feds to review Minneapolis response to shooting protests
Published 10:18 am Thursday, March 3, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — A spokesman for the Minneapolis mayor says the U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to review how the city responded to demonstrations after a black man was fatally shot by police last year.
The Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services won’t release details until Thursday. But Mayor Betsy Hodges’ spokesman David Prestwood said the COPS Office will assess how the city responded to protesters’ occupation of a north Minneapolis police station.