President Donald Trump's administration has begun to end the federal government's involvement in reforming local police departments, a civil rights effort that gained momentum after the deaths of unarmed blacks such as George Floyd and Brena Taylor.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would cancel two proposed settlements that would have seen the cities of Louisville, Kentucky and Minneapolis, Minnesota, agreeing to federal supervision of its police departments.

Often, these settlements (called consent ordinances) involve a series of steps and objectives of bipartisan negotiations, and federal courts help enforce them.

In addition, the Justice Department said it would withdraw reports from six other local police departments that have found patterns of discrimination and excessive violence.

The Trump administration will announce the announcement as part of its efforts to shift greater responsibilities to cities and states and stay away from the federal government.

"This is the view of the Trump administration's civil rights department's view that federal micromanagement of local police should be a rare exception, not a normal situation," the Assistant Attorney General of Justice said.

She believes that this kind of federal oversight is a waste of taxpayer funds.

"There is a lack of accountability. There is a lack of local control. I think there is an industry here, and it's a safety that deprives taxpayers and keeps citizens safe," Dhillon said.

But civil rights leaders and police reform advocates were angry at the news, which arrived a few days before Floyd’s fifth anniversary.

Reverend Al Sharpton is one of the leaders who call on police departments to take meaningful action after capturing Floyd's last moments. On May 25, 2020, a white policeman Derek Chauvin leaned his knee against Floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes, suffocating and dying.

"This move is not just a policy reversal," Sharpton said. "It's a moral retreat that conveys a shocking message that accountability is optional when it comes to black and brown victims."

He warned that the Trump administration's actions signaled to police departments that they were "under censorship."

Floyd's murder is also marked by many other high-profile deaths, including Taylor's.

The 26-year-old medical worker lay in bed late at night on March 13, 2020, when police broke into her apartment with a beating ram. Her boyfriend feared they had been attacked and shot. Police responded with a while torture and killed Taylor, who was hit six times.

Her death and others in the United States have sparked a period nationwide, with thousands protesting in the streets as part of social justice movements such as Black Lives. People believe that the 2020 "race estimate" is one of the largest mass demonstrations in American history.

The protests unfolded in the months of Trump's first term, when Democrat Joe Biden took over as president in 2021, the Justice Department conducted a series of 12 investigations examining allegations of police excessive abuse and local excessive violence.

These investigations, called “modal or practice” investigations, are designed to study whether incidents of police brutality are part of a one-off or larger trend for a one-off police department.

Floyd's murder took place in Louisville, Minneapolis and Taylor, two cities where the Trump Justice Department decided to abandon its settlement on Wednesday. In both cities under Biden, the Justice Department has discovered patterns of discriminatory policing.

"Police usually have to make split decisions and risk their lives to keep the community safe," the Minneapolis report reads.

However, it added that the local police department “used dangerous technology and weapons to those who committed the most, sometimes without the crime at all.”

During this period, other police departments conducted a review, including the police department in Phoenix, Arizona; Memphis, Tennessee; Trenton, New Jersey; Mount Vernon, New York; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Louisiana Police.

Dhillon, who now runs the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, withdraws these Biden-era discoveries as a policy hub. She also denounced the agreement to the statute as an overused tool and said she would consider revoking some of the agreements that had been reached.

However, the process may involve the approval of the judge.

While some community advocates expressed concerns that the consent ordinance could put a burden on already overstretched law enforcement agencies, others disagree with the latest move by the Justice Department, believing that retreats can deprive resources and momentum from police reforms.

Chief Paul Humphrey said on the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) that a better policing commitment goes beyond any solution. He said he would look for an independent monitor to oversee the reform.

“It has nothing to do with these words in this article,” he said. “It’s about the work of men and women in LMPD, men and women in the subway government and communities to make us a safer and better place.”

In Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey doubled down, saying he could continue to push for police reform plans his city agreed to.

"We will abide by every sentence of every paragraph of the 169-page consent signed this year," he said in a press conference.

“We will make sure we will move forward with every sentence of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights and every sentence of every paragraph of the consent order.”