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DOJ launches an investigation into Memphis and the city's police department

The Justice Department said its investigation will focus on the Memphis Police Department's use of force, its stops and arrests and whether the department engages in discriminatory policing.

WEKU

US justice department to investigate racial bias in Memphis policing

Civil pattern and practice inquiry comes after claims of brutality and discrimination, including death of Tyre Nichols in January

The Guardian - US

DoJ announces investigation of Memphis police department after Tyre Nichols death

Unarmed 29-year-old Black man died of blunt force trauma to the head after Memphis police stop in January

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Justice Dept announces broad investigation of Memphis police practices after Tyre Nichols death

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the patterns or practices of the police department in Memphis, Tennessee, seven months after the violent beating of Tyre Nichols by five officers after a traffic stop

The Independent UK

Retired cop Mark LeSure who spoke out against killing of black man by police found dead

57-year-old retired Memphis homicide detective Mark LeSure was found dead outside of his home. He had been outspoken against Memphis police following the death of Tyre Nichols

Daily Mirror

Judge considers which records to release in case against ex-officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols

Five former Memphis police officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols have made a brief court appearance as a judge considers which records should be released to the public as part of the highly-publicized case that intensified calls for police reform in the U.S. The five officers are…

The Independent UK

Officers sued by Tyre Nichols' family want to pause lawsuit until criminal case is resolved

Lawyers for some of the Memphis officers named in a federal lawsuit over the death of Tyre Nichols are asking that the civil case be put on hold until the criminal case is finished

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California skate park named for Black motorist fatally beaten in police traffic stop

Officials have dedicated a California skate park in honor of Tyre Nichols, a Black man prosecutors say was beaten to death last Janaury by police officers in Memphis, Tennessee

The Independent UK

‘The world has never been the same’: George Floyd’s uncle on three years of heartbreak and fighting for justice

Selwyn Jones has found ways to grow around his grief after his nephew was killed by police, including co-founding a nonprofit focused on racial justice

The Guardian - US

George Floyd death anniversary: Reckoning with police violence in limbo

The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police was three years ago today, and the fervent protests that erupted around the world in response, seemed like the catalyst needed for a nationwide reckoning on racism in policing

The Independent UK

The AG who prosecuted George Floyd's killers has ideas for how to end police violence

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison kept notes as lead prosecutor in the state's case against Derek Chauvin. He's sharing them in a new book, Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence.

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Judge blocks release of video, records in Tyre Nichols beating death investigation

A Tennessee judge has continued to temporarily block the release of more video footage and records in the Tyre Nichols investigation

The Independent UK

Tennessee commission holds off on decertifying former officer charged in Tyre Nichols death

A Tennessee commission that enforces standards for police has recommended that proceedings to bar an officer charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols from serving in law enforcement in the state be suspended until his legal case is resolved

The Independent UK

Deputies in civil rights probe accused of sexual assault

An attorney says Mississippi sheriff's deputies already being investigated for possible civil rights violations after allegedly placing a gun in a Black man's mouth and firing it attempted to sexually assault him and a second man during the same encounter

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Tyre Nichols died of blows to the head, autopsy shows

An autopsy shows Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained in a beating by police during a traffic stop in Memphis in January. Five officers have been charged in his slaying.

Al Jazeera

Tyre Nichols autopsy reveals brain injuries after police beating

Five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, have been charged with second-degree murder in Nichols’s death in January.

The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols died of blunt force injuries, autopsy finds

Autopsy describes multiple contusions, brain injuries, cuts and bruises to the head and other parts of the body

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Tyre Nichols died of blunt force injuries, autopsy shows

An autopsy report shows Tyre Nichols died of blunt force injuries to the head after he was beaten by Memphis police during a January arrest

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Tyre Nichols' autopsy reveals brain injuries from blunt force trauma, attorneys say

The family of Tyre Nichols and their attorneys were briefed on his official autopsy results Wednesday, nearly four months after his death.

The Guardian - US

Ex-officer Preston Hemphill won’t be charged in Tyre Nichols killing

Hemphill ‘did not pursue’ Nichols and ‘was not present for the later beating incident’, says Shelby county DA’s spokesperson

The Independent UK

No charges for ex-officer who hit Tyre Nichols with stun gun

A prosecutor says a former Memphis police officer who hit Tyre Nichols with a stun gun during a traffic stop that preceded Nichols’ brutal beating by other officers won’t be charged criminally

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The law often shields police officers from accountability -- and reinforces policing that harms Black people, homeless people and the mentally ill

Seeking accountability in the brutal police beating death of her son, the mother of Tyre Nichols has filed a US$55 million federal lawsuit against the individual officers, the Memphis Police Department and the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

Al Jazeera

Family of Tyre Nichols sues Memphis officials, police officers

The $550-million lawsuit in the US compares the Nichols beating to that of Emmett Till, a Black boy murdered in 1955.

The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols’ family sues Memphis police over beating, death

The family of Tyre Nichols has sued the city of Memphis and individual officers and emergency medical personnel involved in his case

The Independent UK

Tyre Nichols’ family sues Memphis police over brutal beating that led to his death

Nichols died in January, three days after a brutal beating by five Memphis police officers

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