Minneapolis officials reached an agreement with the Department of Justice to make sweeping reforms to address discriminatory policing. The Minneapolis City Council voted 12-0 in favor of the consent decree in a closed-door session after discussing it for nearly seven hours on Monday.

The City Council went into closed session for about seven hours Monday to go through the details of a consent decree, a legally binding agreement to reform policing.

A man who preferred not to give his name takes a moment at the George Floyd memorial during the annual Rise and Remember Festival near the place where Floyd was murdered three years ago by a police officer,

The Minneapolis City Council voted in favor of the proposed consent decree between the Department of Justice and the City of Minneapolis during a closed hearing session on Monday,

With only two weeks left in the Biden administration, officials hurried to finalize a plan in the city where George Floyd was murdered.