Family of #TyreNichols Sues the City of #Memphis https://politicaliq.com/2023/04/19/family-of-tyre-nichols-sues-the-city-of-memphis/ #MemphisPD #ScorpionUnit #BenCrump #Crump #PoliceBrutality #politicaliq #news #politics

#Black #Army #Vet Says Same #Memphis #Cops #Beat Him Days Before #Killing #TyreNichols
#MonterriousHarris alleges he was pulled from his car and beaten by the same “#ScorpionUnit” officers charged in the murder of Tyre Nichols.
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By Tess Owen
February
On the evening of Jan 4, a Black army veteran named Monterrious Harris says he was in his car outside an apartment complex in Memphis, Tennessee waiting for his cousin, when a group of armed men in ski masks and black clothes “suddenly swarmed his vehicle” and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t exit the car.

These men were not carjackers, as Harris initially believed, but officers from Memphis’ police department—allegedly the very same officers who, only days later, would be seen on body camera brutally beating Tyre Nichols, leading to his death.
Vice.com

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

#DOJ to Review #Memphis #Police Following Nichols Death https://politicaliq.com/2023/02/06/doj-to-review-memphis-police-following-nichols-death/ #PoliceBrutality #CommunityPolicing #ScorpionUnit #politicaliq #news #politics

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/memphis-police-scorpion.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #acab #tyrenichols #scorpionunit

Check out my #podcast on #TyreNichols

I promise you will hear things here that nobody else is reporting.

https://the-robot-afro-show.simplecast.com/episodes/100-yards-from-home-on-the-subject-of-tyre-nichols

#MemphisPoliceShooting #ScorpionUnit #policebrutality #Tyre #podcastrecommendation #podcasting #podcaster #BlackAmericanHistory #Racism #Racist

6th #Memphis Police Officer Suspended in #TyreNichols Death

It was not immediately clear what role the officer, #PrestonHemphill, had played in the incident that led to murder charges against five fellow officers fired from the police force.

#MemphisPD
#ScorpionUnit
#JusticeForTyreNichols
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/us/memphis-officer-suspended-tyre-nichols.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Naming the #Memphis PD death squad the #ScorpionUnit was kind of prophetic. Guess who the frog is...
#TheScorpionAndTheFrog #PoliceAccoyntability #DeathSquad

#MemphisPolice Disband #ScorpionUnit https://politicaliq.com/2023/01/30/memphis-police-disband-scorpion-unit/ #Scorpion #MemphisFive #TyreNicholsVideo #politicaliq #news #politics

Memphis fought crime hard
Using Scorpion Unit's cards
But was it flawed from start?

#memphis #crime #scorpionunit #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/memphis-police-scorpions.html

Tyre Nichols: Memphis police shut down ‘Scorpion’ unit day after fatal beating video released to public | The Independent
#MemphisScorpionUnit
#ScorpionUnit
#MemphisPolice
#TyreNichols
#MPD

MPD announced specialist team involved in arrest would be ‘permanently deactivated’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/tyre-nichols-memphis-scorpion-unit-b2271276.html

Demands for justice heard
Scorpion unit disbanded
Memphis breathes anew

#justicefortyrenichols #memphis #policereform #scorpionunit #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/us/scorpion-memphis-police-tyre-nichols.html

#MemphisPD said Saturday that it would shut down the the so-called #ScorpionUnit that had employed the five officers charged in the death of #TyreNichols as fallout from the brutal beating continues. A day after video footage of Nichols being beaten was released, a broadening web of investigations had expanded to scrutinize additional local authorities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/28/tyre-nichols-memphis-video/

The Memphis Police Department has disbanded the special unit whose officers beat Tyre Nichols to death

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis Police Department has disbanded the special unit whose officers beat to death motorist Tyre Nichols.

Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said Saturday that she “listened intently” to Nichols’ relatives, community leaders and uninvolved officers in making the decision

#ScorpionUnit

#TyreDNichols
#TadarriusBean
#DemetriusHaley
#EmmittMartinIII

Oh god…the #MemphisPolice have a #ScorpionUnit that engaged in police brutality …but they were meant to stop crime.

It seems that #TyreNichols was targeted and he had committed no crime.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/scorpion-unit-memphis-police-task-force-center-tyre/story?id=96720313

It appears that these police who killed #TyreNicols may have been put into an aggressive police unit when they were too new to policing and not sufficiently trained.

Another question, and there are many, why did no one see this coming? What type of supervision oversaw their behaviors? Were there no psychological reviews involved?

Most importantly, what is going on with other such police units?

This is heartbreaking for many reasons.

#ScorpionUnit #ProtectandServe

"Chelsea Glass, an organizer with Decarcerate Memphis, which advocates for reform of the criminal justice system, said Scorpion was .. a street crime-fighting team that relied on low-level traffic stops as pretexts to find violent criminals and weapons.
They harass everyday residents, and they’re calling this high-level policing,” Glass said. “But it’s really just stop-and-frisk on wheels. It doesn’t matter what name you slap on it.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/memphis-police-scorpion-unit-tyre-nichols-rcna67711
#TyreNichols #ScorpionUnit

"There are more than two dozen officers assigned to SCORPION teams. They wear black hoodies and tactical black vests with "POLICE" emblazoned across the front and back, and drive dark colored Dodge Chargers marked with a SCORPION seal.

The crime-suppression teams patrol in groups and at times use justified low-level traffic stops as a way to find violent criminals, drugs or weapons."

From CBSnews
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tyre-nichols-former-memphis-police-officer-scorpion-unit/

#TyreNichols #ScorpionUnit #Police #justice #Justice4Tyre

"Two months into SCORPION's deployment, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland touted the unit's effectiveness. In his state of the city speech, Strickland claimed the unit was responsible for 566 arrests, 390 of them felony arrests, seized $103,000 in cash, 270 vehicles and 253 weapons between October 2021 and Jan. 23, 2022.

Criminal justice reform activists and some residents, however, have accused officers in the unit of using excessive force."
From ABCnews

https://abcnews.go.com/US/scorpion-unit-memphis-police-task-force-center-tyre/story?id=96720313

#ScorpionUnit