United States District Court, District of Minnesota, Fourth Divisionsued Minneapolis' police department for racial discriminationOfficer Medaria Arradondo and his colleagues stated in the suit that they had faced retaliation since joining the department, like in 1992, when they received a letter from interoffice mail signed with "KKK."
Among other things, the black cops' suit claimed that white officer Bob Kroll, who joined the police force the same year as Arradondo, called then-US Congressman Keith Ellison, who is a black Muslim, a "terrorist."Arradondo now serves as Minneapolis' police chief, whose officer was shown killing George Floyd in a now-notorious video that sparked a nationwide uprising. And Kroll is the head of the local police union that has defended the officers involved in Floyd's death.
Their ongoing headbutting also reveals an exceptional aspect of the labor movement in the US. Progressives laud unions as the voice of the America'sworking class. But criminal justice experts told Business Insider that police unions protect aggressive cops, buttressing the underlying system of police brutality in the US.
This MPD story is a case study in how a city's police union leader can disregard the actions of a chief that are designed to crack down on bad cops. A protester kneels at the memorial for George Floyd where he died outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis.Minneapolis police chiefs have been pushing for reform — but the union won't let it happen
Though Arradondo called out Kroll's bad behavior in his lawsuit years ago, the union leader has generally spoken well of his chief: "He's the opposite of a narcissist," Kroll told theStill, the two have sparred over key police reform policies.
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