Crime, Law and Justice

Frey signs Minneapolis city budget with police funding cuts
The budget preserves Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's proposed staffing levels for the city’s Police Department. It also takes nearly $8 million from the department to pay for crime prevention programs, mental health crisis response teams and other initiatives.
Officer charged in Floyd’s killing asks to push trial to July
A defense attorney for one of the former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing is asking the judge in the case to push the trial back until next summer because he says prosecutors have dragged their feet in turning over important evidence.
Twin Cities man first to be sentenced for arson from May unrest
A judge this week sentenced a Twin Cities man to more than six years in federal prison for setting fire to a Dakota County government building. Fornandous Cortez Henderson was the first person to be sentenced for setting fires during the civil unrest that followed the police killing of George Floyd in May.
ACLU sues Waseca federal women’s prison over COVID-19 response
The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed a lawsuit on behalf of 14 women incarcerated at Waseca, where almost 450 people have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began.
Supreme Court says Muslim men can sue FBI agents in no-fly list case
The case – Tanzin v Tanvir — involved three Muslim men who said their religious-freedom rights were violated when FBI agents tried to use the no-fly list to force them into becoming informants.
Casey Goodson update: Death at deputy's hand is ruled a homicide
The Franklin County, Ohio, Coroner's Office said in a statement that Goodson died of "multiple gunshot wounds to the torso" but did not address the family's claim that he had been shot in the back.