Police reform in the US: A tale of two Minnesota cities

After police killed Black men in Minneapolis and Brooklyn Center, local officials approached reforms differently.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US – Last month, as the world watched the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd, a Black man, just a few miles away from the courthouse, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer Kim Potter shot and killed Daunte Wright, also a Black man. Potter, who claims that she mistook her gun for her Taser during her 26th year on the force, faces second-degree manslaughter charges. As the events following Wright’s death unfolded, Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott got to work.