MSCS taking steps to protect bystanders from pepper spray
Deputy Chris Stephens, the resource officer at Kate Bond Middle School, walks the halls between classes on March 1, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Most students, however, said they don’t support security staff carrying pepper spray.
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools pepper spray useAarron Fleming
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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