Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Minneapolis police brutality costs city some serious cash (City Pages)

Minneapolis police brutality costs city some serious cash:
Compared to St. Paul, Minneapolis's numbers for police misconduct payouts are way high: $700,000 versus $9.5 million from 2005 until today. To be fair, half of Minneapolis's payout is from one accidental shooting of a police officer: Duy Ngo. The Derryl Jenkins case has put the spotlight on how some officers with the Minneapolis Police Department treat people they arrest. Jenkins's attorney released a telltale video taken from a squad car that shows five officers beating him after he was pulled over. Chief Tim Dolan has asked the FBI to look into the matter...

In the past four years, Minneapolis paid about $9.5 million in about 80 police misconduct settlements: almost as much as the city paid in the preceding ten years, but in half the time...

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