George Edward MacKinnon was an American politician,attorney,and judge who variously served as a United States representative and United States Attorney for Minnesota,and as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He is also the father of feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon.
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is the primary law enforcement agency in Minneapolis,Minnesota,United States. It is also the largest police department in Minnesota. Formed in 1867,it is the second-oldest police department in Minnesota,after the Saint Paul Police Department that formed in 1854. A short-lived Board of Police Commissioners existed from 1887 to 1890.
Eric John Magnuson is an American lawyer in private practice. He was the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 2008 to 2010.
Paul George Cassell is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah,who is currently the Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. He is best known as an expert in,and proponent of,victims' rights.
Michael James Davis is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Milton Irving Shadur was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Emily Michele Coody Marks is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
Eric Christian Tostrud is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Erica Hinkle MacDonald is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota from 2018 to 2021. She served as a judge of the District Court for the First Judicial District of the State of Minnesota from 2010 to 2018;as an Assistant United States Attorney from 2000 to 2009;a litigation associate in 2000;and a federal judicial law clerk from 1997 to 1999.
On May 25,2020,George Floyd,a 46-year-old black man,was murdered in Minneapolis,Minnesota by Derek Chauvin,a 44-year-old white police officer. Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk alleged that Floyd made a purchase using a counterfeit $20 bill. Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face-down in a street. Two other police officers,J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane,assisted Chauvin in restraining Floyd. Lane had also pointed a gun at Floyd's head prior to Floyd being put in handcuffs. A fourth police officer,Tou Thao,prevented bystanders from intervening.
Derek Michael Chauvin is an American former police officer,who was convicted of murdering George Floyd,a 46-year-old African-American man,in Minneapolis,Minnesota. Chauvin was a member of the Minneapolis Police Department from 2001 to 2020.
Pierson v. Ray,386 U.S. 547 (1967),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court first introduced the justification for qualified immunity for police officers from being sued for civil rights violations under Section 1983,by arguing that "[a] policeman's lot is not so unhappy that he must choose between being charged with dereliction of duty if he does not arrest when he had probable cause,and being mulcted in damages if he does."
The following is a timeline of race relations and policing in Minneapolis–Saint Paul,providing details with a history of policing in the Twin Cities in the U.S. state of Minnesota from the nineteenth century to the present day. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office,with its headquarters in downtown Minneapolis,is one of the "largest law enforcement agencies in Minnesota" with division and unit facilities throughout Hennepin County. Twin cities,Saint Paul and Minneapolis,have their own police departments,the Minneapolis Police Department,which was established in 1867 and the Saint Paul Police Department. A union for rank and file officers in Minneapolis—the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis —was established in 1917.
Local protests over the murder of George Floyd began on May 26,2020,and quickly inspired a global protest movement against police brutality and racial inequality. The initial events were a reaction to a video filmed the day before and circulated widely in the media of police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds while Floyd struggled to breathe,begged for help,lost consciousness,and died. Public outrage over the content of the video gave way to widespread civil disorder in Minneapolis,Saint Paul,and other cities in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in the five-day period of May 26 to 30 after Floyd's murder.
In Minneapolis on July 22,2006,city police officer Jason Andersen shot Fong Fee—a 19-year old Hmong American man—eight times while pursing him for arrest,killing him at the scene. Andersen was legally cleared of wrongdoing by an internal investigation and in state and federal legal cases. Concerns persisted about Andersen's use of deadly force and about the investigation of the incident,such as if there was potential tampering of evidence. The United States Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal of Lee's federal case in 2010. The manner of Lee's death and the legal case against Andersen generated public outcry,particularly among the Hmong American community in Minneapolis–Saint Paul,which was renewed during protests of racial injustice following the police murder of George Floyd in 2020.
State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin is an American criminal case in the District Court of Minnesota in which former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was tried and convicted of the murder of George Floyd during an arrest on May 25,2020. Chauvin was found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder,third-degree murder,and second-degree manslaughter;the first charge could have carried a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison. It was the first conviction of a white officer in Minnesota for the murder of a black person. On June 25,2021,Chauvin was sentenced by the trial judge to 22+1⁄2 years in prison for second-degree murder,10 years more than the sentencing guidelines of 12+1⁄2 years.
The aftermath of the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul describes the result of civil disorder between May 26,2020,and June 7,2020,in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Minnesota. Protests began as a response to the murder of George Floyd,a 46-year-old African-American man,on May 25,2020,after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds as three other officers assisted during an arrest. The incident was captured on a bystander's video and it drew public outrage as video quickly circulated in the news media by the following day.
In 2020 and 2021,several protests were held in the U.S. city of Minneapolis that coincided with judicial proceedings and the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin. As an officer with the Minneapolis Police Department,Chauvin was charged with the murder of George Floyd,an unarmed African American man who died during an arrest incident on May 25,2020. A bystander's video captured Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes while Floyd struggled to breathe,lost consciousness,and died. Protesters opposed Chauvin's pre-trial release from jail on bail in October 2020. In the lead up to and during the criminal trial in early 2021,demonstrators sought conviction and maximum sentencing for Chauvin,and the enactment of police reform measures.
Jerry Wayne Blackwell is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
