The Justice Department also announced plans to reverse lawsuits it had filed seeking police reform against the departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, where the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, respectively, spurred widespread public outrage.

The Justice Department is shaking up the priorities for a popular grant program that provides millions of dollars in aid to budget-strapped local police departments across America, according to public documents reviewed by CBS News.

The Trump administration's DOJ said it would withdraw existing consent decrees and retract its findings of civil rights violations in Memphis.