The Department of Justice has announced that it will be dropping its investigation into the City of Memphis and the police department over civil rights violations.

The Justice Department said it was officially closing its investigation into Memphis police and retracted its findings of civil rights violations.

DOJ is abandoning efforts for court-approved settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville after finding they had violated Black people's civil rights.

Hours after the Department of Justice announced its retraction of findings from an investigation into the Memphis Police Department, FOX13 sought to answer unanswered questions. The biggest question: what happens next?

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of high profile police killings.

After the DOJ retracted findings that Memphis police violated civil rights, Mayor Paul Young said the approach to reform is unchanged.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday dismissed all of its President Biden-era police investigations. This includes a scathing report by the department last year that Memphis Police conducted civil rights violations of citizens.

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division said it will take “all necessary steps” to dismiss the consent decrees and lawsuits against the Louisville and Minneapolis

The U.S. Justice Department is abandoning efforts to secure court-approved settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville, despite its prior finding that police in both cities routinely violated the civil rights of Black people,