Minnesota police oversight board votes to ban white supremacists, update crowd control tactics

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Minnesota police oversight board votes to ban white supremacists, update crowd control tactics
Minnesota's police oversight board voted Thursday to take a first step toward banning officers who affiliate with white supremacy groups and imposing limits on police responding to protests.
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4:45 PM · Apr 22, 2021

https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-police-oversight-board-votes-to-ban-white-supremacists-update-crowd-control-tactics

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota's police oversight board voted Thursday to take a first step toward banning officers who affiliate with white supremacy groups and imposing limits on police responding to protests.

The Minnesota Peace Officer Standards and Training Board took the unanimous votes two days after Derek Chauvin's murder conviction and on the same day Daunte Wright was laid to rest after he was killed by police in Brooklyn Center this month.

Minnesota's police oversight board voted Thursday to take a first step toward banning officers who affiliate with white supremacy groups and imposing limits on police responding to protests.

The regulatory changes are similar to legislation that's alive in the state Legislature this spring. Advocates for police accountability are using the POST Board as a backstop in case the divided House and Senate fail to reach agreement.

"If I’m a chief and find out someone is a member of the Proud Boys (a white supremacy group), for me to discipline, I have to go through just hoops and hoops," said Mendota Heights Police Chief Kelly McCarthy, the board's chair. "If it was a matter of licensure as it should be, we’d be able to take much swifter action."

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1. "a first step toward banning officers who affiliate with white supremacy groups"

Minnesota's police oversight board voted Thursday to take a first step toward banning officers who affiliate with white supremacy groups ...

You mean this wasn't already being done? This is something new? That's pretty screwed up. They need to do that with the police union too, since those unions are reliably white supremacists and their overflowing campaign-contribution coffers always stuff city councils and mayoral positions with sympathizers . I still think the way to go is to summarily disband the police department, thus breaking the union, and replace it with "police department V2" or something, tell all current cops they are free to re-apply for work, thoroughly vet them, and never let it unionize. The cop unions are a big part of the problem.

[Nevilledog]

2. Totally screwed up

[SheltieLover]

3. +1,000!

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Same Thought

It took until now to decide cops with radical racial ideas were bad for the public?
Seems appallingly obvious, to me.
Making it easier to fire them should have occurred to such a regulatory body 40 years ago, or more.

[stillcool]

5. I don't understand what a 'police-oversight-board' is

but the first steps seem sideways.