Minnesota State Patrol deleted emails, texts after George Floyd protests, testimony reveals
Minnesota State Patrol officers purged emails and texts immediately after protests over the death of George Floyd last year, according to a transcript of court testimony released Friday.
Maj. Joseph Dwyer said he and a "vast majority" of the Minnesota State Patrol deleted the messages during the summer of 2020, according to testimony from a July 28 hearing in an ACLU lawsuit alleging the agency used unnecessary and excessive force to target journalists who covered the protests.
Dwyer said the purge was not specifically ordered by supervisors but that it is a "standard practice" for patrol members to delete texts and emails periodically or after a major event.
"You just decided, shortly after the George Floyd protests, this would be a good time to clean out my inbox?" ACLU attorney Kevin Riach asked, according to the transcript.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/07/minnesota-police-deleted-texts-emails-george-floyd-protests-aclu-lawsuit/5751028001/
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