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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMemphis's Policing Strategy Was Bound to Result in Tragedy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/tyre-nichols-memphis-policing/672865/No paywall
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Like many American cities, Memphis, Tennessee, has a long history of vexed relationships between the police and Black citizens. Also like many cities, it has seen an increase in activism about police reform in recent years. But over the last two years, as I reported on policing in Memphis, I heard laments from activists that they struggled to bring the attention of elected officials and a broad swath of citizens to the problems they saw.
The lack of attention may no longer be an issueat least for now.
Earlier this month, 29-year-old Tyre Nichols died after an encounter with officers near his home. Officials initially said Nichols was stopped for reckless driving. They described a confrontation with officers and said Nichols tried to flee before another confrontation. How true this account was remains to be seen. No footage of the incident has yet been made public, but the city is expected to release it this evening.
Whatever happened, officers beat Nichols, who was taken away in an ambulance and died three days later, on January 10. Everyone who has seen footage describes it as horrific. On January 20, Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis fired the five officers involved. Yesterday, Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy announced second-degree murder charges against the men.
In a word, its absolutely appalling, David Rausch, the director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, said of the video during a press conference yesterday. Im shocked, Im sickened by what I saw and what we learned through our investigation.
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Memphis's Policing Strategy Was Bound to Result in Tragedy (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2023
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Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)1. Militarization of the police
Why do we have a unit named scorpion. That is something for special ops in the military.
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RockRaven
(14,784 posts)3. So not a case of a few bad apples. The barrel is the source. No matter how many apples cycle
through there, some will always go bad in the worst way -- and all will be tainted to some degree -- until you utterly cleanse/replace the barrel.