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August 2022 MOU between UCMT and MPD UCMT/MPD MOU Updated 8/3/2022 This Memorandum of Understanding, (MOU”), is a living document. It began life as the 2003 MOA between the Minneapolis Police Department, MPD, under Chief Robert Olson, and the Unity Community Mediation Team, UCMT, led by Ron Edwards and Clyde Bellecourt. It was signed at the Urban League Building on Plymouth and Penn Avenues in North Minneapolis on December 4, 2003, after two years of meetings and negotiations between the MPD and the UCMT in a mediation process led by the Community Relations Service of the United States Department of Justice (CRS”). The mediation was agreed to by both sides in the face of a history of police violence against the communities represented in the UCMT, African American, American Indian, Latino, LGBTQ and the behavioral health community representatives. The MOA created the Police Community Relations Council, PCRC, a self-governing entity made up of the two sides in the mediation effort, the UCMT and the MPD. After the signing of the MOA, the two sides met, often weekly, for five years on the implementation of the 106 action items agreed to in the MOA. By 2008, the then mayor of Minneapolis decided not to continue to participate in the PCRC process created by the MOA 70% of the action items were complete. Once the two parties stopped meeting as the PCRC, the transformation momentum receded since the pressure for change from the PCRC had been removed from the picture. On May 25, 2020 George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in an event that shook Minneapolis and reverberated around the world. The next day, one of the UCMT signers of the MOA reached out to CRS to request their assistance in reconvening the PCRC. The DOJ agreed as did the then Chief of the department, Medaria Arradondo, who had also been an original signer of the MOA when he was a Sergeant. Following his retirement in early 2022, Interim MPD Chief Amelia Huffman continued to move forward with this process and with MPD’s partnership with UCMT to update and add new needed language to the MOA, agreeing to make the PCRC a permanent part of the community engagement work of MPD. The UCMT worked for over two years to draft updates and additions to the original MOA with MPD leadership, the Police Officers Federation, our communities and the Young People’s Taskforce and on June 23, 2022 transmitted the language agreed to by UCMT and MPD to MPD Chief Amelia Huffman, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Sergeant Sherral Schmidt the President of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, and the broader community. The UCMT and MPD have agreed to reconvene the PCRC as a permanent process to lead the transformation of MPD and the community with transparency, accountability and consequences. As conditions, laws, understanding and relationships continue to evolve in Minneapolis, PCRC (UCMT and MPD) will continue to meet and confer as per section 2 of the MOU to continually improve the public safety systems and the communities in Minneapolis. UCMT and the MPD recognize that this MOU comes at a critical moment: (1) the Minnesota Department of Human Rights and the United States Department of Justice have both commenced investigation of whether the City or MPD has engaged in a pattern or practice of unlawful policing pursuant to the jurisdiction of each entity; (2) City and MPD are subject to the jurisdiction of both the MDHR and the DOJ; (3) MDHR’s and DOJ’s investigation and jurisdiction overlap significantly with the subject matter of this MOU; and (3) the MDHR completed its investigation in April 2022 and the City and MDHR are currently negotiating to resolve the MDHR’s claims that there is probable cause to believe that MPD has engaged in a pattern or practice of discriminatory policing; (4) the DOJ’s investigation is ongoing and the City anticipates entering into a consent decree with the DOJ regarding the subject of its investigation; (5) it will not serve the UCMT and MPD’s shared goals of non-discriminatory policing, for the City to be subject to inconsistent agreements on overlapping issues; (6) the MPD and UCMT do not wish to wait indefinitely for the City and MDHR to conclude its negotiations, or for the DOJ to conclude its investigation, before making meaningful and lasting change. For these reasons, this MOU is an important form of engagement with crucial community stakeholders and represents the UCMT and MPD’s shared and current understanding of what policing should look like in Minneapolis. However, UCMT and MPD acknowledge that there are ongoing legal processes occurring with MDHR and DOJ and that the resolution of those processes will likely impact the matters addressed in this MOU. As noted above, as conditions, laws, understanding and relationships continue to evolve in Minneapolis, PCRC and MPD will continue to meet and confer regarding this MOU to continually improve the public safety systems and the relationships between UCMT and MPD. In addition, there may be a change in circumstances impacting the matters addressed in this MOU. This document is a statement reflecting shared principles of UCMT and MPD, and a recognition of the important relationship between the communities represented by UCMT and MPD and its contribution to public safety and trust between MPD and the communities it serves. Section 1. Use of Force. The sanctity of life shall be our first priority. The MPD recognizes that the use of force by it officers is a concern to the people of Minneapolis. Many people of color: African Americans, Native Americans, Latino, African immigrants, women, members of the LGBTQ community, the disability and mental health communities feel particularly vulnerable to the use of force, and use of excessive force and related issues such as vulgar/profane language, threatening language, coded language and threatening body posture/movements by police officers. Members of Minneapolis’s communities have expressed that they feel and experience the total disregard and disrespect of our humanity and basic rights as human beings in Minneapolis. MPD employees shall actively listen, empathize, build rapport, and be creative in communicating and partnering with community members, City and County service providers, health and behavioral health professionals. The goal of de-escalation is to maintain safety for all while gaining trust of officers and achieving voluntary compliance. The MPD acknowledges the vital role of education and training in recognizing the effect of implicit bias in policing and public safety. Accordingly, the parties agree to the following provisions regarding the use of force by MPD officers. Authorized Use of Force. The standard establishing when the use of force is authorized is governed by Minnesota statutes and state and federal case law: Minnesota statue 609.06, authorized use of force; 609.066 authorized use of deadly force by Licensed Peace Officers. MPD agrees that fear, hate, and or personal biases based...