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A missing-person report for Tamia Taylor, 21, was filed Sunday, Sept. 10, the day after she disappeared after celebrating her birthday with friends on the Island Queen Booze Cruise.
According to the indictment, the defendants conspired to intentionally “withhold and omit material information and knowingly make false and misleading statements” to cover up the use of force taken out on Nichols.
“Effective policing requires public trust,” said Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Five former officers in Tyre Nichols case federally indictedRelated story:
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith made their initial appearances in federal court Wednesday before Magistrate Judge Charmiane Claxton and were arraigned on the charges.
Emmitt Martin III made his first court federal court appearance Thursday, Sept. 14, and was arraigned before Magistrate Judge Annie Christoff.
A judge is slated to issue an order by the end of next week allowing for the public release of additional video, audio, reports and personnel files related to the Tyre Nichols case.
Most of the cases dismissed as a result of their ties to the five former Memphis Police Department officers accused in Tyre Nichols’ death were street-level drug offenses, weapons violations and driving violations.
The 12th annual Memphis Walk a Mile in Her Shoes brought students, athletes, police officials, government employees and community members, some in high heels, to raise awareness.
The suspect has not yet been identified or charged.
Gershun Freeman was involved in a fatal encounter with corrections officers in the Shelby County Jail at 201 Poplar Ave. on Oct. 5, 2022. Bonner claims Freeman video release was illegal and politically motivatedRelated story:
“Thank God, because the grand jury, the citizens of Shelby County, saw the same video we saw and said that that is not right,” Attorney Ben Crump said, standing with family of Gershun Freeman, who was killed at Shelby County Jail. Related story:
“For our office to bring criminal charges, we must be confident that we can prove an actual violation of a criminal statute beyond a reasonable doubt,” Mulroy said. “We don’t have sufficient evidence to do that here.”
Sgt. Louis Brownlee, a public information officer with MPD, said no foul play is suspected.
Whitehaven Elementary and Whitehaven High schools went on a precautionary lockdown as police investigated an off-campus shooting Wednesday afternoon.
Monica Timmerman cannot accept new cases and must stop representing existing clients by Oct. 27. District Attorney General Steve Mulroy said Timmerman has begun treatment and expects to be in compliance before the suspension begins.
MPD reported that three suspects armed with handguns robbed an employee who was putting cash into the ATM outside the bank.
As of Sept. 22, the number of pedestrian deaths in Memphis is down 28% from the same point last year, but up 73% compared to 2013.
The Shelby County Commission gave final approval Monday, Oct. 2, to a pair of ordinances calling on the Shelby County Sheriff to collect data on specialized units as well as traffic stops, use of force and citizen complaints. It rejected an ordinance asking the Sheriff’s Office to ban pretextual traffic stops.
On the same day as an apparent suicide at the Shelby County Jail, the sheriff’s office talked about a program that would use peer-guided healing ciricles within the facility and the need for mental health facilities.
A detainee at the Shelby County Jail was found dead Wednesday, Oct. 4, according to information provided by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
“Tomorrow will mark the one year anniversary of Gershun Freeman’s death, but tomorrow also will mark new change in the city of Memphis,” said Kareem Ali, an investigator with civil rights attorney Ben Crump’s law firm.
As of 5:15 p.m., there had been 268 voters at St. Paul Baptist Church, 2124 E. Holmes Road, in District 3, according to Morgan Johnson, deputy officer for the polling location.
Craft approved Wright’s request to separate his trial from Richardson’s. Wright is still scheduled to begin his trial Oct. 23, but Richardson’s new trial date, which will occur later, has not yet been set.
Walker and Kirkwood will battle for the Memphis City Council district that covers Whitehaven and parts of Parkway Village, Oakhaven and Hickory Hill.
The trial for one of the suspects, McKinney Wright, was scheduled to begin Oct. 23, but it has been pushed back to Dec. 4.