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State Rep. John Gillespie had sponsored a bill blocking local governments from limiting police departments' ability to conduct traffic stops. Memphis legislator asks for AG opinion on MPD's still ...
The Tennessee Senate Thursday morning passed a bill blocking local governments from passing police reform on traffic stop policies, sending the bill to Gov. Bill Lee's desk to be signed into law ...
In January, MPD interim Chief Davis said she enforced a pretextual stop ordinance after the council passed it. Documents show that was not the case.
The reform was supported by Nichols’ family as well as civil rights groups and activists, who have argued police stops for minor infractions – also called pretextual stops – unfairly target ...
Republican Tennessee House lawmakers on Thursday advanced a bill to undo the reforms to police traffic stops made by the city of Memphis in response to the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by ...
Pretextual stops are traffic stops conducted by law enforcement for a traffic violation, but the purpose is for the officer to investigate an unrelated crime that the driver was not stopped for. A law enforcement officer can learn about a potential suspect from a traffic stop by identifying the driver, engaging in conversation with them, and ...
When police stop and search a pedestrian, this is commonly known as a stop and frisk. When police stop an automobile, this is known as a traffic stop. If the police stop a motor vehicle on minor infringements in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity, this is known as a pretextual stop. Additional rules apply to stops that occur ...
In a press release that accompanied the two bills' filing, Taylor directly mentioned the Memphis City Council's ordinance banning pretextual traffic stops for a short list of minor offenses.