DA releases footage of police spraying protesters, fellow officers during No Kings march
Protesters were pepper-sprayed by police near the end of the No Kings march in Downtown Memphis on March 28, 2026. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
The nearly 9 minutes of footage is from the body camera of one of the MPD officers who used pepper spray on No Kings marchers.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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