Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison discusses policing, politics and how to prevent cops from killing more people.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison stands for a portrait at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, on May 15, 2023. | Jenn AckermanMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is consumed by a quest to examine how policing reached a crisis point.
Top: A mural of George Floyd is seen on June 18, 2020, in Minneapolis. Bottom: A photograph of Tyre Nichols holding his daughter is displayed during a news conference on Jan. 31, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images; Seth Herald/AFP/Getty Images Ellison explores these issue in his new book, “Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence,” which examines the country’s racial divide as much as it does policing.Along with the swift action in Tennessee, what other changes have occurred in the wake of Floyd’s death?
Top Left: A police officer points a hand cannon at protesters, on their knees and with their hands up, during a demonstration on May 31, 2020, in Minneapolis. Top Right: A protester shouting in the face of a National Guardsman during a protest on May 29, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn. Bottom: Protesters demonstrating outside of a burning Minneapolis Third Police Precinct on May 28, 2020.
Given George Floyd’s murder happened in Minnesota, do you think it exposed that the country’s racial divide isn’t just in the South? Ellison led the prosecution of Derek Chauvin, the disgraced police officer who murdered George Floyd. | Hennepin County Sheriff via API have been dealing with police accountability issues even before I was attorney general or serving in Congress. I helped to organize and led a task force to reduce deadly force encounters, even before George Floyd was killed. I thought it could be the kind of book to help police departments reduce these incidents and do something before a tragedy happens.
The Third Police Precinct building in Minneapolis was burned in May 2020 during the protests after Floyd's death. | Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images
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