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Attorney General Merrick Garland says ‘patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible’

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Police Department routinely engaged in a pattern of racist and abusive behavior that deprives people of their constitutional rights, according to new findings of a Justice Department investigation initiated by the murder of George Floyd three years ago.

The department launched an investigation into the city's police department following George Floyd's murder.

The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis three years ago sparked global outrage and triggered a renewed push for reform of US policing powers.

Nineteen Japanese who are allegedly members of a fraud group have been detained by Cambodian authorities. The Metropolitan Police Department obtained arrest warrants for the men on suspicion of fraud targeting a woman in Tokyo, according to investigative sources.

Bob Kroll cannot police in several Minnesota counties for the next 10 years after lawsuit settlement

A warrant for the arrest of expelled upper house lawmaker Yoshikazu Higashitani, who goes by the moniker GaaSyy, was being sought Thursday by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Officer has record of misconduct allegations

A record 3.997 billion yen in found cash was handed in to the Tokyo police last year, the highest amount since records began in 1940, the Metropolitan Police Department has said.

Two men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in a recent robbery and murder in Komae, Tokyo, that claimed the life of a 90-year-old woman, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

A 45-year-old man who underwent simultaneous kidney and liver transplant surgery in Belarus in early September last year died before the month was out, according to police sources. It was the second patient death related to overseas transplants arranged in Belarus last year by a Japan nonprofit organization that is…