Crime, Law and Justice

 Is curbing traffic stops a step to justice reform?
MPR News host Angela Davis talks with Ramsey County Attorney John Choi about his office’s decision to stop prosecuting most felony cases stemming from low-level traffic stops. 
Criminal cases against Line 3 protesters stress rural Minnesota legal system
Hundreds of pipeline cases are straining resources in the northern Minnesota counties where most of the protests took place. Some protesters say they have had to wait months for a public defender.
Congressional negotiators have failed to reach a deal on police reform
After a Minneapolis jury found a white police officer who killed George Floyd guilty of murder, lawmakers in both parties had expressed cautious optimism that they could broker a deal.
Abstract art created during Chauvin verdict goes up for auction
The starting bid for Minneapolis artist seangarrison’s “Walking on Air,” which he painted outside the Hennepin County Government Center, is $150,000. The sale will benefit Youth Link MN and the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery, as well as the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama.
Minneapolis police to get bystander training following murder of George Floyd
Attorneys for the three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd are expected to argue that their clients had not been trained to intervene when a fellow officer uses too much force. Now, the department is adopting a training program designed to do just that.
Antoine Darnique Suggs, 38, previously charged with allegedly hiding the bodies of four people in a Wisconsin cornfield, now faces four counts of second-degree murder.
Explainer: New charge unlikely for ex-cops in Floyd death
The Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the third-degree murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor won’t change the cases against the three former officers charged in George Floyd’s death.