The Justice Department said it will bring an end to investigations launched during the Biden administration after the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville.

Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, announced the decision days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.

The Justice Department said Wednesday it is moving to drop police reform agreements reached with the cities of Louisville, Kentucky and Minneapolis.

The DOJ announced the end to Biden-era federal consent decrees aimed at seizing long-term control of local police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville.

The dropping of the cases takes place near the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Trump's DOJ also plans to close investigations into a number of police departments around the country.

The Justice Department under the Trump administration has withdrawn from key police reform agreements in Minneapolis and Louisville, abandoning efforts to increase federal oversight of local law enforcement and closing investigations into several other police departments.

The Department of Justice announced that it plans to end ongoing police reform agreements, including the one in Louisville.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday said it is dismissing Biden-era lawsuits against the Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis police departments and is in the process of unwinding ...

The Justice Department announced it will begin dismissing lawsuits brought by the Biden administration against the Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, police departments. CBS News' Scott MacFarlane reports.

DOJ officials announced Wednesday they were pulling Joe Biden-era lawsuits targeting police departments in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, which came under scrutiny following the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, whose deaths galvanized racial justice protests in 2020.