Firm Helps Minnesota Achieve Historic Consent Decree To Reform Minneapolis Police Department

Today the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) and the City of Minneapolis filed a consent decree that Daniel Woofter helped to negotiate for the better part of a year as part of MDHR’s core negotiating team, the culmination of MDHR’s investigation and findings in the wake of George Floyd’s murder of a pattern or practice of race discrimination by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The consent decree requires the City and MPD to make transformational changes to their organizational culture by respecting the humanity, dignity, and civil rights of community members, addressing race-based policing, and strengthening public safety.