Liz Sawyer

The decision comes after a watchdog group waged a three-year legal battle to expose how the police force used the secretive coaching process.

A state inspector found that the Hennepin County facility locked teens in their rooms for long stretches without cause, denied access to programming and conducted lax wellness checks.

Phillip Murphy, Minneapolis citizen journalist who documented the North Side, dies at 61

Activists continue to call for Chief Brian O’Hara’s firing over the department’s handling of a violent neighbor dispute. But O’Hara says he is committed to fulfilling his three-year term and has “no intention of turning my back” on the police force.

A consent decree is one of the federal government’s most aggressive tools for reining in police departments found to be violating the U.S. Constitution. Republican presidents rarely pursue them. Trump killed Chicago’s after assuming his first term in office.

More than a decade before allegedly shooting and critically wounding Davis Moturi, records show Sawchak repeatedly harassed tenants and ran a Black family out of their home.

SWAT negotiators tried to communicate with John H. Sawchak for hours and and eventually breached his home on Sunday night, shortly after Chief Brian O’Hara admitted to failing his victim.

Authorities identified the deceased victim as a 55-year-old man from New London, Minn.

Police have not said whether they believe the shooting was accidental or intentional.

Johnny Birzavi Sanchez Sanchez was shot on the south side in late July, while on a motorcycle.