Minneapolis Third Precinct served as 'playground' for renegade cops

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Minneapolis' Third Precinct served as 'playground' for renegade cops

Long before former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, the Third Precinct in south Minneapolis had a reputation for being home to police officers who played by their own rules.

One officer kicked a handcuffed suspect in the face, leaving his jaw in pieces. Officers beat and pistol-whipped a suspect in a parking lot on suspicion of low-level drug charges. Others harassed residents of a south Minneapolis housing project as they headed to work, …

These and more substantiated incidents, detailed in court records and police reports, help explain a saying often used by fellow cops to describe the style of policing practiced in the Third: There’s the way that the Minneapolis Police Department does things, and then there’s the way they do it “in Threes.”

Disclaimer, so graphic descriptions in article.

A widespread problem? Or maybe this particular precinct was bad.

This place in particular sounds like it was out of control, trouble waiting to happen. Did they not have any serious oversight? This is just one view and perhaps there is a rebuttal to it but this place sounds like it was problematic to begin with. Maybe it was this precinct in particular. If police act on the job as what seems to happen in this place fairly routinely, yes, big changes would seem to be needed.