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The Minnesota state legislature attempted to write a new law that would redesign all police departments in Minnesota.  In 2020, Minnesota's state legislature is the only one in the United States in which one political party controls one house and the other party controls the other.  The United States Democratic Party has the majority of people in the Minnesota House of Representatives and the United States Republican Party has the majority of people in the Minnesota State Senate.  The Democrats wanted large changes to policing and the criminal justice system in Minnesota, like letting the state attorney general investigate police killings and restoring voting rights to felons.  The Republicans wanted small changes, like making a rule against using chokeholds like the one Chauvin used to kill George Floyd.  Democrats said they did not like the Republican plan because it was mostly things that police departments had already tried.  At midnight on Friday June 19, the Minnesota state legislature ran out of time.  Their session ended, and neither plan became law.