White supremacists have made several appearances in Nashville over the past few weeks: marching with swastika flags, interrupting a Metro Council meeting and, last Saturday, screaming racial slurs at a group of young, Black boys who were playing drums downtown.
Nashville voted for police oversight in 2018. Now a complaint says top MNPD officials worked to end the COB.
A retired Nashville police lieutenant has claimed that at least two high-ranking MNPD officials worked to overturn the city’s Community Oversight Board — and the department’s top leadership knew about it.
Nashville police must report their use of force to Metro Council quarterly under new policy
Nashville’s Metro Council passed legislation Tuesday requiring the city’s police to provide quarterly use of force reports to the body.
Update: Nashville restaurant mass shooting suspect arrested
One man is dead and multiple people were injured after a shooting in a Salemtown restaurant on Sunday afternoon, Nashville police confirmed.
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.
TBI investigating late afternoon shooting on I-65
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says agents are at the scene of a shooting on I-65 after Nashville police, Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers and an off-duty Mt. Juliet officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man while, they say, they were responding to reports of a person with a box cutter.
After pushback, Nashville council decides to spend city money, not federal dollars, on police Tasers
Nashville’s police department wanted almost $6 million for new Tasers and had requested it come from the federal COVID relief money the city had been allocated. But Metro Council got pushback from the community and within its chambers on what the city’s priorities are for the pandemic money.
‘We Keep Us Safe’: Nashville Protesters Rally For Peace After Police Shooting
In response to rising gun violence, community organizers in Nashville wanted April 24 to be 24 hours of peace. A police shooting just before midnight shattered that plan.
Nashville Police Fatally Shoot Man After Traffic Stop In Bordeaux
Nashville police have fatally shot a man following a traffic stop just before midnight on Clarksville Pike in Bordeaux. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate.
Nashville Police And Black Leaders Ask How The City Would Handle A Ferguson Situation
The head of one of Tennessee’s largest African American churches is organizing a town hall meeting to ask: How would the city address a tense racial incident? And how can the city prevent one altogether?
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