The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted to end its relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department
From CNN's Aaron Cooper and Josh Campbell
The former officers appeared in orange jail uniforms and face masks with a small number of their families allowed into the socially-distanced courtroom for hearings that averaged about 10 minutes each. “I am hard pressed to come up with any comparisons” to other cases, the judge said when ruling on the first case.
“I’m asking the court to set bail on the individual” not the institution of the police department that has “lost its guidance,” Plunkett argued.“It is not meant as punishment,” Gray said, adding, “bail is not mean to kowtow to the media.”
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