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Oglala Sioux Tribe asks feds to investigate law enforcement
https://ictnews.org/news/oglala-sioux-tribe-asks-feds-to-investigate-law-enforcementRAPID CITY, S.D. – The Oglala Sioux Tribe is calling for the U.S. Justice Department to launch an investigation into the Rapid City Police Department citing a pattern of discrimination against Native Americans in the city.
“There is a pattern of practices by police in both Rapid City and Pennington County, South Dakota, that disproportionately targets Native Americans in police stops, in arrests, police killings, and police officer killings of tribal members,” the tribe stated in the resolution.
Native Americans represent about a tenth of Rapid City’s population but comprise nearly 60 percent of all fatal police-involved shootings since 2007, as found by a June investigation by Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team.
“There is a pattern of practices by police in both Rapid City and Pennington County, South Dakota, that disproportionately targets Native Americans in police stops, in arrests, police killings, and police officer killings of tribal members,” the tribe stated in the resolution.
Native Americans represent about a tenth of Rapid City’s population but comprise nearly 60 percent of all fatal police-involved shootings since 2007, as found by a June investigation by Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team.