Blackout Tuesday

Today is being marked as "Blackout Tuesday."

Minnesota is launching a civil rights investigation into the minneapolis police department.

Walz floyd-vo-1 walz floyd-vo-2 the minnesota department of human rights filed a civil rights charge related to george floyd's death.

State officials saying it is illegal for a police department to discriminate against someone because of their race.

Walz floyd-sot-1 walz floyd-sot-2 today as a step towards that deconstruction of systemic racism, the minnesota department of human rights is filing a comissioner's charge of discrimination.

To launch a civil rights investigation into to determine if the department is utilizing systemic discriminatory practices against people of color blackout tues-stinger-2 today is being marked as "blackout tuesday" it's a day promoted by activists to reflect and bring about policy change in the wake of the death of george floyd.

Kimt new three's jessica bringe joins us live with the simple way you can get involved to show your support.; jessica.

Live blackout tues-live vo-2 amy - if you've been on social media today - your feed has likely been flooded with this image.

A black square..

Meant to show support for the black lives matter movement.

Rochester diversity council says to get involved you simply post the stark black background to instagram or facebook using the hashtag: black out tuesday.

Exective director dee sabol tells me it's important that those who want to participate shouldn't use the hashtag: black lives matter.

Blackout tues-live sot-1 lowerthird2line:dee sabol executive director, diversity council it's really important to use the blackout tuesday hashtag because we don't want to flood black lives matter with just the black boxes.

There's really critical information that's being transferred there.

So, sticking with blackout tuesday is really important.

Blackout tues-live sot-3 if you have already posted with the live in rochester- jessica bringe kimt news 3 the diversity council says it's wonderful to participate in the post but encourages advocates to find ways to be more vocal and learn how to support members of our black communities.

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