Justice Department smothers Biden-era police reform deals

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department on Wednesday scrapped police reform agreements with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky—two cities where high-profile police killings of Black Americans ignited nationwide protests—abandoning what was left of the former Biden administration’s push for accountability.

Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general in charge of the department’s Civil Rights Division, claimed the consent decrees constituted an “anti-police agenda,” saying in a press...