Tyre Nichols' family lawyer Antonio Romanucci said that there is an 'undertone of racist policing' in Memphis Police's Scorpion unit, whose members were involved in the killing of the 29-year-old. Read more:
When Memphis, a city in southwest Tennessee, had a record number of homicides in 2021 for the second year in a row, many were calling for action.
"MPD's New SCORPION UNIT Launched!" read a post on the department's Facebook page, along with a video clip showing a group of officers in tactical vests at a roll call. "The Scorpion unit was involved," Steve Mulroy, the District Attorney for Shelby County, Tennessee, confirmed on Thursday when he announced the murder charges against five officers.
In January last year, Mayor Jim Strickland promoted the unit as part of the solution to the high homicide rate, stating that in its first three months, it had made hundreds of arrests and seized hundreds of cars and weapons.Its operations were flaunted on the police department's Facebook page: arrests that began with traffic stops, escalated into more serious confrontations and ended with arrests of people for drugs and guns.
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