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Task force designed to guide changes for Minneapolis police

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In this May 27, 2020, file photo, police gather en masse as protests continue at the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct in Minneapolis. More than 150 Minneapolis police officers have started the process of filing for disability claims since the death of George Floyd and the ensuing unrest in the city, with the majority citing post-traumatic stress disorder as the reason for their planned departure, according to an attorney representing the officers. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP, File) **FILE**

Lawyer: Over 150 Minneapolis officers seeking disability

By AMY FORLITI - Associated Press

1 killed, at least 5 others wounded in Minneapolis shootings

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Children caught up in rolling gun battle at Minneapolis park

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Protesters react along Chicago Avenue as fires rage along a strip of businesses, early Saturday, May 30, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests continued following the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Minnesota Senate GOP spotlights damage after Floyd’s death

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

In this July 8, 2010, file photo, Wanda Johnson, center, mother of Oscar Grant, who was killed by transit officer Johannes Mehserle, speaks during a news conference in Los Angeles. As videos and stories of Black people being killed at the hands of police officers make the rounds online, many Americans have been called to protest racial injustice in recent weeks. For many Black Americans, those videos are also contributing to a sense of grief and pain. Psychologists call it racial trauma, the distress experienced because of the accumulation of racial discrimination, racial violence or institutional racism. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Images of brutality against Black people spur racial trauma

By NOREEN NASIR - Associated Press

Alondra Cano, a City Council member, speaks during &quot;The Path Forward&quot; meeting at Powderhorn Park on Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Minneapolis. The focus of the meeting was the defunding of the Minneapolis Police Department. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP)

Minneapolis City Council members who voted to gut police get taxpayer-funded private security

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, June 6, 2020 photo, volunteers and Youth Farm members pose for a photo around a flag designed by artist Dread Scott at the site of a community garden in north Minneapolis. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Minneapolis north siders work the land as an act of healing

By MELISSA TOWNSEND - Associated Press

Chief of Police Carmen Best, right, gives an elbow-bump to activist and community organizer Andre Taylor, left, before a news conference Monday, June 22, 2020, in Seattle. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times via AP)

The Latest: 12 arrested in protest at Virginia capital

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Police detectives canvas the area where a 3-year-old boy was fatally shot while riding in an SUV with his father, near the intersection of North Central Avenue and West Huron Street, in the Austin neighborhood Saturday, June 20, 2020, in Chicago. Multiple people, including several children, were killed as more than 100 people were shot in a wave of gunfire in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend that produced the city’s highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP)

Spate of shootings raises fears of a violent summer

By LISA MARIE PANE and KATHLEEN FOODY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 30, 2018 file photo, Minneapolis Police Union President Lt. Bob Kroll speaks during a news conference regarding the release of body camera footage in the police shooting death of Thurman Blevins, at the Minneapolis Police Federation headquarters in Minneapolis. Kroll has been steadfast over the years in defending officers’ conduct. And in a letter to members in June 2020, he blasted state and city leaders for failing to support the Minneapolis Police Department following George Floyd’s death. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)

In Minneapolis, talk of changing PD means taking on union

By AMY FORLITI - Associated Press

People stand near a storefront of a shoe store damaged by gunfire as a police vehicle remains on the scene outside the Uptown Theatre Sunday, June 21, 2020, following a shooting in Minneapolis' Uptown neighborhood. Multiple people were shot, one fatally, when gunfire broke out shortly after midnight Sunday. (AP Photo/Doug Glass)

Minneapolis shooting: One dead, 11 wounded

By Doug Glass - Associated Press

A police officer, far right, investigates the scene of a shooting as a person stands nearby Sunday, June 21, 2020, in Minneapolis' Uptown neighborhood. Multiple people were shot, one fatally, when gunfire broke out shortly after midnight Sunday. (AP Photo/Doug Glass)

1 man dead, 11 people wounded in Minneapolis shooting

By DOUG GLASS - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, right, confers with Assistant Majority Leader Warren Limmer before the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate began debate, Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn., on a package of police accountability measures in response to the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Minnesota lawmakers fail to reach police overhaul deal

By Jeff Baenen - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 5, 2019, file photo, Beyonce walks to her seat during the first half of Game 3 of basketball's NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors in Oakland, Calif. Beyoncé did not let Juneteenth 2020 pass without dropping one of her signature surprises in the form a new single called “Black Parade.” The singer's website says the song released late Friday, June 19, 2020, will benefit black-owned small businesses. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

The Latest: Religious leader criticizes toppling of statue

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In this image from video provided by Darnella Frazier, Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneels on the neck of George Floyd, who was pleading that he could not breathe, in Minneapolis on Monday, May 25, 2020. The four officers involved in the fatal incident have been arrested. (Darnella Frazier via AP)

Derek Chauvin had knee on George Floyd’s neck for 7 minutes, 46 seconds, not 8:46, prosecutors say

By Amy Forliti - Associated Press

People march down the street towards the Georgia state capitol to protest against the mistreatment of black people and to press for policy change, Monday, June 15, 2020, in Atlanta. The NAACP March to the Capitol Monday coincided with the restart of the Georgia 2020 General Assembly. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

The Latest: President Trump says police treated unfairly

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CORRECTS THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAME - People hold a rally at Wendy's on University Avenue in Atlanta on Sunday, June 14, 2020. Rayshard Brooks died after a confrontation with police officers at the fast food restaurant in Atlanta on Friday. (Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Officer charged with murder for shooting Rayshard Brooks

By KATE BRUMBACK - Associated Press

Little Rock mayor bans police use of neck restraints

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In this June 12, 2020 file photo from a screen grab taken from body camera video provided by the Atlanta Police Department Rayshard Brooks speaks with Officer Garrett Rolfe in the parking lot of a Wendy's restaurant, in Atlanta. Rolfe has been fired following the fatal shooting of Brooks and a second officer has been placed on administrative duty. The Fulton County District Attorney will announce charging decisions in the fatal shooting of Brooks during a news conference, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Atlanta. (Atlanta Police Department via AP, File)

Garrett Rolfe, Rayshard Brooks killer, to be charged

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