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October 3, 2024 at 3:49 PM. Three former Memphis police officers charged over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols following a traffic stop in 2023 have been found guilty on some counts and acquitted ...
Contents. 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.
10 October 2022. James "Jay" Keith Steward. 13 August 2024 (pleaded guilty) Tuscumbia Police Department (Alabama) Police responded to reports of a crash where an on-duty officer, Steward, had struck pedestrian Terry Hinton. Steward was found to be under the influence and driving on the wrong side of the road.
September 16, 2024 at 7:59 PM. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Memphis police officer, who pleaded guilty last month to federal charges in the 2023 death of Tyre Nichols, testified Monday that ...
Rankin County torture incident. On January 24, 2023, six white law enforcement officers, five from the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, at a home in Braxton, Mississippi. Police were called to the home by a white neighbor who reported that ...
United States v. Valle was a criminal case in the Southern District of New York concerning Gilberto Valle, a New York City Police Department officer who had discussed on online fetish chatrooms his fantasies about kidnapping, torturing, raping, killing, and cannibalizing various women he knew, and had used a police database to find the addresses of some.
A stand-your-ground law, sometimes called a " line in the sand " or "no duty to retreat" law, provides that people may use deadly force when they reasonably believe it to be necessary to defend against certain violent crimes (right of self-defense). Under such a law, people have no duty to retreat before using deadly force in self-defense, so ...
Entrapment. Entrapment is a practice in which a law enforcement agent or an agent of the state induces a person to commit a crime that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit. [1] In US law, it is defined as "the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or agent, and the procurement of its commission by ...