After #TyreNichols' death, #DOJ launches #civilrights investigation into #Memphispolice, city

https://flip.it/zozRAz

"#Civilrights and personal injury attorneys Ben Crump, Antonio Romanucci, and local counsel, retired Judge Earnestine Hunt Dorse, will announce the filing of a #civillawsuit against the City of #Memphis, #MemphisPolice Department, and individual officers for the January 2023 death of #TyreNichols. The 29-year-old father was killed after a pretextual traffic stop and a brutal beating by Memphis #PoliceOfficers," says attorney Benjamin Crump in a Wednesday statement
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1648676228994408448/photo/1

RT @MLK50Memphis
"So this is important for #TyreNichols, his family & the other people who have had similar experiences w this Scorpion Unit, & so many people in my community like myself whose stories [are] going unheard of" - Pearl Walker on why she signed on to to investigate #MemphisPolice

#Update: #Memphis' Five Charged Ex-Officers Plead Not Guilty https://politicaliq.com/2023/02/17/memphis-five-charged-ex-officers-to-appear-in-court/ #memphispolice #TyreNichols #TyreNicholsVideo #politicaliq #news #politics

#Memphis' Five Charged Ex-Officers to Appear in Court https://politicaliq.com/2023/02/17/memphis-five-charged-ex-officers-to-appear-in-court/ #TyreNichols #TyreNicholsVideo #MemphisPolice #PoliceBrutality #politicaliq #news #politics

Report: #MemphisPolice Officer Drew Gun as He Approached #TyreNichols https://politicaliq.com/2023/02/10/report-memphis-police-officer-drew-gun-as-he-approached-nichols/ #PrestonHemphill #PoliceBrutality #Memphis #politicaliq #news #politics

The Shelby County D.A.
Will look at cases from today
With the now-disbanded Scorpion unit
To ensure justice for those swept away

#shelbycounty #memphispolice #justice #scorpionunit #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/us/memphis-police-scorpion-unit-tyre-nichols.html

Former Memphis officer texted photo of beaten Tyre Nichols, state records show https://flip.it/4o8KHh #TyreNichols #MemphisPolice

Tyre Nichols' death shows
The power of a photo text
Justice for the fallen

#tyrenichols #memphispolice #justice #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/tyre-nichols-photo-memphis-demetrius-haley.html

Why would you have an elite task force that you know is designed for aggressive policing and you don’t cover your bases? They may have to shoot someone. They may have to kick someone’s door down. They may have to physically restrain someone,” Williams said. “You should have experienced people around to restrain them and keep them from going down a dark path.”

#MemphisPolice

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Muscle Cars, Balaclavas and Fists: How the Scorpions Rolled Through Memphis https://news.yahoo.com/muscle-cars-balaclavas-fists-scorpions-175810374.html
For 14 months, officers from the high-profile #ScorpionUnit of the #MemphisPolice Department in Tennessee patrolled city streets with an air of menace, zooming up on targets, jumping out of their Dodge Chargers at a dead run, shouting at people to get out of their vehicles, lie down on the ground #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #PoliceShootings #GeorgeFloydPolicingAct #PoliceReform

“All I Want Is My Baby Brother Back” – Mother Jones

At his Memphis funeral, mourners celebrate the life of Tyre Nichols.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/tyre-nichols-funderal-memphis/

#TyreNichols #Funeral #PoliceViolence #Killing #Memphis #MemphisPolice

*Georgia's outsized response to the #MemphisPolice murder of Tyre Nichols was the culmination of tensions that have been building for more than a year over a planned $90 million public safety training complex in a city-owned forest south of #Atlanta. Since late 2021, environmental and anti-police activists are squatting in the forest & living in its trees to stop construction of what they call “Cop City."*

#TyreNicholls
#CopCity

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Whoaa🔥 can anyone confirn? It makes sense as to why they just pulled him frm car for no apparent reason w/o talking to him, etc. - he was targeted?
From Civil Rights activist
RT @sirmaejor on Bird:

BREAKING NEWS: I am being told that #TyreNichols was in a relationship with and worked at a Memphis @FedEx with #MemphisPolice Demetrius Halys’s ex-girlfriend & baby mama. After the beating Officer Halys took a pictures of #TyreNichols face and sent it to his babymama.
1:13 PM · Jan 30, 2023

"Shortness of breath." Pigs lie and lie and lie some more.

Here's what #MemphisPolice had to say about #TyreNichols on January 8, while Tyre lay dying in the hospital.

https://twitter.com/MEM_PoliceDept/status/1612057507937095680

"Shortness of breath." Pigs lie and lie and lie some more.

Here's what #MemphisPolice had to say about #TyreNichols on January 8, while Tyre lay dying in the hospital.

https://twitter.com/MEM_PoliceDept/status/1612057507937095680

RT @micchiato
Preston Hemphill, white #MemphisPolice officer, who tased #TyreNichols and encouraged the assault by other cops, was not arrested or fired; we won’t ever see a mugshot of him in a hoodie https://twitter.com/newshour/status/1620111044763914264

EA on BBC: The Killing of #TyreNichols, The Police, and the Issue of #Race (ScottLucas w BBC Radio Wales/BBC Radio Ulster)

https://eaworldview.com/2023/01/killing-tyre-nichols-police-race/

#MemphisPolice #BlackLivesMatter

EA on BBC: The Killing of #TyreNichols, The Police, and the Issue of #Race (ScottLucas w BBC Radio Wales/BBC Radio Ulster)

https://eaworldview.com/2023/01/killing-tyre-nichols-police-race/

#MemphisPolice #BlackLivesMatter

Preston Hemphill, white #MemphisPolice officer, who tased #TyreNichols and encouraged the assault by other cops, was not arrested or fired; we won’t ever see a mugshot of him in a hoodie
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RT @newshour
A sixth Memphis Police Department officer has been disciplined for his involvement in the brutal beating and arrest of Tyre Nichols, a department spokeswoman said Monday. https://to.pbs.org/3Dr4uJL
https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1620111044763914264