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Of the tickets with multiple citations viewed by Decarcerate Memphis from 2017 through August 2023, 89.7% of tickets with multiple citations were given to Black people.
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.
Legislation designed to undo police traffic stop reforms set in place after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers last year is now headed to Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's desk ...
Protests over the killing of Tyre Nichols (/ ˈtaɪ.ri ˈnɪk.əlz / TY-ree) began on January 27, 2023, following the release of police body camera and surveillance footage showing five Black officers from the Memphis Police Department beating Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. The police assault on Nichols occurred on January 7, 2023, and he ...
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 ...
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 ...
One day on from the deadly traffic stop, Memphis Police suspended seven officers over the matter – including the five now charged with murder. On Monday, the department confirmed that a sixth ...
A traffic ticket is a notice issued by a law enforcement official to a motorist or other road user, indicating that the user has violated traffic laws. Traffic tickets generally come in two forms, citing a moving violation , such as exceeding the speed limit , or a non-moving violation, such as a parking violation , with the ticket also being ...