Minneapolis Police, Long Accused of Racism, Face Wrath of Wounded City

MINNEAPOLIS — Earlier in his career, the African-American chief of the Minneapolis police sued his own department, accusing the leadership of tolerating racism. Once he took charge, he vowed to make mending relations with the city’s black residents a priority. But the department, with its long history of allegations of abuse, finds itself under siege again after a video captured a black man suffocating beneath the knee of a white officer, with…