MPD stop of 18-year-old driver prompts calls for further reform
“Clearly those enshrined with the duty to serve and protect failed to do that by every metric,” said local activist Richard Massey, right, seen here at a Tyre Nichols protest in February. (Brad Vest/The Daily Memphian file)
After a recent altercation between MPD officers and an 18-year-old driver, local activists are now calling for further police reforms.
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Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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