The Minneapolis police union has had great success convincing arbitrators to reinstate fired officers.
1 / 3Shortly after four Minneapolis police officers were fired over the death of George Floyd, the president of the city's police union wrote a letter to his members signaling that he was working to restore the officers' jobs.Kroll's union has had great success in getting police officer terminations reversed — by appealing them to arbitrators.
The Minneapolis police union did not respond to a request for comment on its current stance on the officers. Story continues"I would say this is one of the most important accountability issues," said Stephen Rushin, a Loyola University Chicago law professor who published a study on arbitration in 2018.In Minnesota, as in many other states, members of public employee unions have the right to appeal any form of discipline to binding arbitration.Presented with a pool of seven, each side takes turns striking a name until only one remains.
Stephen Befort, an arbitrator and authority on labor law, said it makes sense that arbitrators would maintain close to an even record given the complexity of the cases."The cases that come to arbitration tend to be the difficult ones," said Befort, a University of Minnesota law professor. The Minneapolis police union says only a small number of cases go to arbitration — roughly two a year — and it rejected the"false narrative that our union defends any officer for any reason."
In his ruling, the arbitrator cited the fact that Brazeau was placed on leave following the incident but was then brought back as a training officer prior to his termination. Officer Mukhtar Abdulkadir was fired in 2011 after he was charged with felony assault for an alleged attack on his wife. She told police he punched her in the abdomen and hit her with the butt of his gun, an arbitrator's report says. But she later recanted, and Abdulkadir pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge.
Andersen, Abdulkadir and Brazeau are all still working for the Minneapolis police department, a spokesman said. Abdulkadir and Brazeau could not be reached. A message left for Andersen was not returned.
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