Nashville and Memphis have been running independent, civilian-led police oversight boards — but those groups will be abolished after a legislative vote Thursday.
Tyre Nichols’ death thrust Tennessee’s policing into the national spotlight. Still, state Republicans want to abolish community-led police oversight boards.
Just days after body camera footage was released showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis Police officers, Tennessee Republicans filed a bill that would take police oversight powers away from civilian boards.
MNPD now says it will review body camera footage for improperly censored language, after all
The Metro Nashville Police Department will conduct a review of body camera footage to find out if there were more instances of objectionable language being censored.
MNPD has no record of how much body camera footage was improperly edited. The oversight board says ‘it’s eroding trust.’
A Metro Nashville Police Department internal investigation found that two employees removed swearing from body camera videos without permission. But the department has no record of how much footage was improperly edited, and has no plans to do an audit to find out.
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