Good morning. Arbitration has let half of fired Minnesota police officers get back on their job. In Minnesota, public employees can appeal discipline to an independent arbitrator. Critics say arbitration makes it difficult for police departments to fire bad cops. But police unions say the system allows officers their right to due process. The fate of Minnesota’s arbitration system is set to play out at the state Capitol in the coming weeks. -- Jon Collins, MPR News MPD training manual on neck restraint: "The Minneapolis Police Department, in a training manual issued to all new officers, detailed how to execute the same neck restraint that killed George Floyd, lawyers for one of the officers involved in the May 25 incident argued in a Wednesday motion." -- Pilar Melendez, Daily Beast
One of the former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd has filed a motion to dismiss charges, saying there isn’t enough evidence to establish probable cause that he committed a crime. Thomas Lane is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting manslaughter. He was one of four officers fired after Floyd was killed on May 25 when officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly eight minutes. -- Dan Gunderson, MPR News
Minnesota public safety officials have given the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office the names of three people who could be charged for their role in the June 10 toppling of a statue of Christopher Columbus on the grounds of the state Capitol. That word came from Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington and Col. Matt Langer of the State Patrol as they faced hours of questioning Wednesday before a state Senate panel about the statue protest. Democrats on the panel fumed over the amount of time devoted to the statue removal compared with the Senate’s attention to Floyd’s killing by police a couple of weeks before. -- Brian Bakst, MPR News
St. Paul City Council approves wide-ranging tenant protections “The St. Paul City Council voted 7-0 on Wednesday to approve a series of residential tenant protections considered to be among the most aggressive in the country. ... The wide-ranging ordinance requires landlords in the renter-majority city to justify in writing why they have chosen not to renew a tenant’s lease. The S.A.F.E. Housing in St. Paul initiative also limits move-in costs to first month’s rent and an equivalent security deposit….” -- Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press
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