Vanita Gupta, head of the department's Civil Rights Division in the Obama administration, said the Minneapolis Police Department was on her “radar” during her tenure.
The former head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division told Yahoo News she feels “absolute and total disgust” over President Trump’s tweet Friday morning that seemed to imply protesters demonstrating against police brutality in Minneapolis should be shot.
Gupta, who is now president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said that if she were still at the Justice Department she would already be on the ground in Minneapolis working with community leaders and the family of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck Monday night. The city has been rocked by sometimes violent protests since footage of the encounter became public.
Twitter subsequently flagged the post for “glorifying violence.” Trump later seemed to walk back his Friday morning tweets, saying they were “spoken as a fact, not as a statement.” But Gupta charged that the Trump administration has abandoned civil rights enforcement, effectively dismantling much of the work accomplished during her tenure.
After the Clark incident, the Community Oriented Policing Services division of the Justice Department worked with the Minneapolis Police Department, said Gupta, providing technical assistance and investigating the treatment of protesters.
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