Open this photo in gallery: Community members visit one of the murals at George Floyd Square, in Minneapolis, Minn., on June 3, 2021.NICOLE NERI/Reuters The U.S. Justice Department is abandoning efforts to secure court-approved settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville, despite its prior finding that police in both cities routinely violated the civil rights of Black people, a senior official said on Wednesday. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the department’s Civil Rights Division, said her office will seek to dismiss the pending litigation against the two cities and retract the department’s prior findings of constitutional violations. “Overbroad police consent...