DoJ moves to cancel police reform settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : The move shows how the civil rights division of the justice department is changing rapidly under Donald Trump, dismantling Biden-era work and investigating diversity programs.
35% : " Trump has generally opposed the use of consent decrees, through which the government has threatened lawsuits against police forces and then entered into reform agreements.
31% : Democratic governor Tim Walz said last week that the state should be prepared for a federal pardon from Trump, but that he had no indication one was forthcoming.
26% : Trump officials seek to dismiss Biden-era consent decrees reached after deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor The justice department moved on Wednesday to cancel a settlement with Minneapolis that called for an overhaul of its police department following the murder of George Floyd, as well as a similar agreement with Louisville, Kentucky, after the death of Breonna Taylor, saying it does not want to pursue the cases.
14% : "If Donald Trump exercises his constitutional right to do so, whether I agree - and I strongly disagree with him - if he issues that pardon we will simply transfer Derek Chauvin to serve out his 22-and-a-half years in prison in Minnesota," Walz said, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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