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26 WORKING GROUP POLICE-INVOLVED DEADLY FORCE ENCOUNTERS RECOMMENDATIONS AND ACTION STEPS WORKING GROUP MEMBERS MN ATTORNEY GENERAL KEITH ELLISON (CO-CHAIR) Keith Ellison was sworn in as Minnesota’s 30th attorney general on January 7, 2019. From 2007 to 2019, Ellison represented Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He served for 12 years on the House Financial Services Committee, where he helped oversee the financial services industry, the housing industry, and Wall Street, among others. Before being elected to Congress, Attorney General Ellison served four years in the Minnesota House of Representa- tives. Prior to entering elective office, he spent 16 years as an attorney specializing i n civil-rights and defense law, including five years as executive director of the Legal Rights Center. MN DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMMIS SIONER JOHN HARRINGTON (CO-CHAIR) John Harrington was appointed by Governor Tim Walz in January 2019 to serve as the Commissioner for the Department of Public Safety for Minnesota. Prior to becoming the Commissioner of Public Safety, Harrington served as the Chief of the Metro Transit Police 2012-2019, helping to create the Homeless Action team and increasing diversity from 5-50%. Commissioner Harrington is a former member of the Minnesota Senate who represented District 67, which includes the East area of Saint Paul. Harrington was the 39th Police Chief for the city of St. Paul Police Department serving from 2004-2010 where he began his police career in 1977. As St. Paul Police Chief, Harrington tackled some of the city’s most difficult problems, resulting in the develop- ment of programs that greatly reduced domestic violence and gang involvement. He also increased the diversity of the police department by 40 percent and worked with the private sector to increase police resources helping to found The Police Foundation and Shop with Cops. MEDARIA ARRADONDO, MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF Chief Medaria Arradondo is the 53rd Chief of the Minneapolis Police Department. He joined the MPD in 1989 as a patrol officer in the 4th Precinct and worked his way up the ranks before being appointed the Inspector of the First Precinct in 2013. He also served as a School Resource Officer, Northside beat officer, the Commander of the Internal Affairs Unit, Deputy Chief, and Assistant Chief, before being nominated as Chief by the mayor in 2017. Chief Arradondo actively sits on several community boards and is a member of several national and international police associations. Arradondo is a courageous public servant and change agent with a demonstrated talent for building mutually-respectful and trusting relationships with community members and professional policing teams. He served as MPD’s liaison for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice Organization, overseeing the execution of initiatives on procedural justice, implicit bias, and reconciliation training. His works has helped positively transforming the MPD culture and position the Department as a national leader in police service excellence.