Minneapolis Approves Sweeping Policing Overhaul Plan.

Minneapolis has agreed to sweeping changes in policing, including a pledge to rein in the use of force and discontinue the practice of using the smell of marijuana as a pretext to search people. The changes are part of a legal settlement between the city and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, which found that the Minneapolis Police Department had routinely engaged in racially discriminatory practices and failed to punish officers for misconduct. The agreement is the first of what are expected to be two government-mandated plans for comprehensively overhauling policing in the city.