RNC '08 Report: Text: Post RNC Staff Direction

Original copy of the notes, with italics showing five proposed points of inquiry in addition to the mayor’s list. Click for printable image.

A minority of the Minneapolis City Council decided Wednesday against requesting answers from Chief Tim Dolan on police actions during the Republican National Convention (RNC). And by killing a proposed staff directive in committee, four members of the council’s Public Safety and Regulatory Services Committee made sure that the seven council members not on the committee won’t have a say on the issue.

Two backers of a more expansive inquiry than that proposed by the Mayor's office—Gordon (Green Party) and Schiff (DFL)— presented what they termed as reasonable additions to the scope of the police department after-action report that Mayor R.T. Rybak outlined last week. See the five proposed points of inquiry which appear below as italicized additions to the mayor’s list.

Staff Direction
By Gordon

MPD staff will conduct an After Action Review and produce a report on the RNC, to be completed by the end of October 2008 and provided to the Mayor and Public Safety and Regulatory Services Committee.

This report will focus on the major incidents that occurred during the Convention, including:
- the Critical Mass Ride
- the Media Party
- the Liberty Parade
- the Rage against the Machine concert
- MPD's participation in preemptive raids on 8/29/08
- MPD's participation in law enforcement responses to protests in St. Paul

It will also evaluate how downtown security worked overall, and how well operations and training protocols, including the 7/25/08 resolution adopting police policies regarding public assemblies, were implemented. It will identify what worked and what did not, and recommend if necessary any policy changes.

In addition, the MPD will:

Evaluate MPD training for the convention and identify best practices and any areas for improvement.

Disclose the number, nature, and status of internal affairs investigations as a result of complaints about incidents that occurred the week of the convention, the week before and the week after.

Provide information on downtown security, where the Secret Service was most involved.

Provide information on Federal law enforcement and the Joint Terrorism Task Force's actions leading up to and during the Convention.

Work with the Saint Paul Independent investigation led by Andy Luger and Tom Heffelfinger as requested by the investigating team.

The MPD's actions on these five items will also be included in the After Action Review report.