In an emergency session called on Friday afternoon, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to ban chokeholds by police and require officers to intervene anytime they see unauthorized use of force by another officer.
After George Floyd’s death, Minnesota’s Department of Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero filed discrimination charges and requested a temporary restraining order against certain policies the Minneapolis Police Department practices.
“This is a moment in time where we can totally change the way our police department operates,” said Mayor Jacob Frey before the vote according to The Star Tribune. “We can quite literally lead the way in our nation enacting more police reform than any other city in the entire country and we cannot fail.”
Since 2015, Minneapolis police have used neck restraints 237 times with 44 people falling unconscious, according to NBC News.
