Five years ago this week, “the summer of protests” erupted. On May 26, 2020, in Minneapolis, protesters responded to George Floyd’s murder. The previous day, a white police officer had kneeled on his neck. On May 28, 2020, protesters responded to the police killing Breonna Taylor. Taylor had been murdered March 13, 2020, but it wasn’t until May 28 that the public heard the 911 call her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, made. The Louisville Courier Journal released it, shedding new light on what happened at the hands of Louisville Metro Police Department.

Five years later, on May 21, 2025, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced the dismissal of the lawsuits against both cities. Consent decrees had already been signed in both Louisville and Minneapolis following thorough inves

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