18-06-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com

Minnesota Democrats press GOP for sweeping policing changes

Gov. Tim Walz has challenged Republican lawmakers to approve a Democratic-backed package of police accountability bills crafted following George Floyd's death so he can have the “poetic justice” of signing them Friday to celebrate Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the country.The Minnesota Senate's GOP majority passed a limited set of measures late Tuesday and early Wednesday that the Democratic governor dismissed as “weak sauce.”The partisan split in Minnesot
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