The Minneapolis City Council on Monday approved an agreement with the federal government in response to the murder of George Floyd that would require reforms within the city’s police department under long-term court supervision.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Minneapolis released the details of an agreement mandating reforms of the Minneapolis Police Department on Monday afternoon. The agreement — called a consent decree — is the culmination of the federal government’s investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department following the police killing of George Floyd that

The Minneapolis City Council has approved a consent decree agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice that will implement major reform within the Minneapolis Police Department. The agreement comes after a two-year investigation from the DOJ into the MPD's patterns and practices.

After the murder of George Floyd, a federal investigation found a pattern of abuse by Minneapolis police. Monday, a promise to take steps to end discrimination against Black and Native Americans in the city.

Minneapolis has reached a tentative agreement with the DOJ to implement federal oversight into its police department.

The newly unveiled federal consent decree for the Minneapolis Police Department calls for a lot of the same changes as an earlier state reform plan — but the oversight document does include some new requirements.

Minneapolis is poised to become the U.S. Justice Department’s 16th under federal consent decree for police reform.

The federal consent decree formalizes many policies that the police department put in place when the world’s attention was on Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder in 2020 that are also in the settlement with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.