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The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a settlement with the Lexington Police Department in Mississippi following a 2024 report that found systemic civil rights violations against Black residents. The DOJ accused the department of discriminatory policing practices, including excessive force and retaliatory arrests, as well as targeting Black individuals for low-level offenses to generate revenue. This agreement mandates reforms aimed at correcting these injustices in Lexington, a predominantly Black city situated about 65 miles north of Jackson.

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday it reached a settlement forcing reforms in a Mississippi city and its police department, which the DOJ found discriminated against Black people, used excessive force and retaliated against critics.

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DOJ reaches settlement with Mississippi police department it found routinely violated civil rights · mixed framing

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The settlement comes after a scathing 2024 DOJ report said the Lexington Police Department routinely violated citizens’ civil rights in the rural, poor, majority-Black city located about 65 miles (100 kilometers) north of the state’s capital. asserted

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Police targeted Black people for arrests, made arrests for low-level offenses to generate money for the police department and locked people up for extended periods of time if they could not afford to pay fines, according to the report. uncertain

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DOJ reaches settlement with Mississippi police department it found routinely violated civil rights

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