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27 Feb 2023, 7:02 am
Kimberly Dobson (Long Island, NY) talks with fellow Littler attorneys, Kim Carter (San Diego, CA), Jason Byrd (New York City, NY), and Taylor Lawson (Memphis, TN) about how they’ve experienced – and seen the impact of – Black resistance in their personal and professional lives. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 4:00 am
Nichols was stopped by a unit of the Memphis Police Department, known as SCORPION – the Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 2:53 am
” Likewise, officials in Shelby County, Tennessee (where Memphis is located) voted to spend $5 million to study the possibility of a long-term reparations program. [read post]
20 Feb 2023, 7:09 am
“What happened to Tyre in Memphis happens too often,” Biden alleged. [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
The city council? [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
For some people, the fact that five young, Black officers beat a young, Black suspect to death does not fit with their understanding of the way race operates in the United States, and in particular with the way racist policing operates.That the Memphis SCORPION unit was created and championed by a Black police chief, in a city with a majority Black city council, creates even more confusion. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
And do not suppose that because Memphis city leadership is largely Black, the criminal legal system in the city is untroubled by these divisions. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 5:01 am
Memphis’s Scorpion unit—the unit at the center of the Tyre Nichols murder—was lauded recently by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland for seizing “$103,000 in cash and 270 vehicles” just between October 2021 and January 2022. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 5:39 am
On 7 February 2023, President Joe Biden gave his 2023 State of the Union Address. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
The city eclipsed the record again the next year. [read post]
4 Feb 2023, 6:01 am
" From "Muscle Cars, Balaclavas and Fists: How the Scorpions Rolled Through Memphis/Residents say the street crime unit has been an intimidating and sometimes violent presence in the city. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 1:45 pm
Recent media have contained numerous stories about Tyre Nichols, who was savagely beaten to death by Memphis police officers. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 1:09 pm
” While the SCORPION unit in Memphis has been disbanded, such teams remain common in major cities nationwide. [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 10:00 pm
SENSELESS KILLING NOW UNDER INVESTIGATIONOn January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old, African-American male, was stopped by members of the Memphis Police Department’s Scorpion unit, while he was driving in the City of Memphis.Almost immediately after the traffic stop, the officers cursed and yelled at Mr. [read post]
29 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm
Someone in the City of Memphis understands that that’s not the story. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 1:00 pm
Nichols’s family, said the family is asking the Memphis Police Department to disband the specialized unit that was formed to help halt a surge of violence in the city. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 6:37 am
Violent crime declining in most major cities. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 4:20 am
Five Memphis police officers were charged yesterday with second-degree murder for the death of 29-year-old Black man Tyre Nichols. [read post]
16 Jan 2023, 10:44 pm
Many communities, especially economically prosperous coastal cities, desperately need more housing but lack land to have it at an affordable price. [read post]
14 Jan 2023, 2:14 am
(Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center Missouri Kansas City: Kansas City VA Medical Center Saint Louis: VA St. [read post]
