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August 21, 2024 at 12:56 PM. Three women are dead, and seven other people are injured, after a Hickory Hill car crash Tuesday night, the Memphis Police Department said in a social media post ...
The Memphis Police Department's Scorpion unit launched in 2021 to target violent crime. ... three days after the traffic stop in Memphis’ Hickory Hill neighborhood for alleged reckless driving ...
Memphis’ Scorpion unit was created in October 2021 under the police department’s Organized Crime Unit. Made up of 40 officers divided into four 10-member teams, the unit was tasked not only ...
Killing of Tyre Nichols. On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [a] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him.
The federal trial over the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died after law enforcement officers beat himfollowing a traffic stop in January 2023, begins Monday in Memphis. Former ...
Memphis, Tennessee serves as the Southern headquarters for Tennessee based street organizations in the Southern United States. In 2021, there were approximately 102 gangs with 13,400 gang members in the city. [1][2] Gangs in the Memphis area are concentrated in high crime black neighborhoods like College Park, Hollywood, Hickory Hill, Parkway ...
The Memphis Police Department was founded in 1827. [6] In 1878, the 55-man police department was devastated by the yellow fever epidemic with all 55 officers stricken, and 10 officers dying. [6] By 1927, the city's murder rate was 69.3 per 100,000 population, the highest in the country. In comparison, Chicago, then controlled by Al Capone, had ...
Three former Memphis police officers charged in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols stood by his body and laughed after they punched, kicked and struck him with a baton in an attack ...