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3 former Memphis officers acquitted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he fled a traffic stop

Adrian Sainz, AP

May 7, 2025

A jury took about 8 1/2 hours over two days to find Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith not guilty on all charges after a trial in state court in Memphis.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, memphis, police, police brutality, Tyre Nichols

Ex-officer says he regrets his failure to stop the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols

Adrian Sainz, AP

April 30, 2025

Former Memphis police officer Desmond Mills Jr. testified Tuesday that he regrets his failure to stop the beating of Tyre Nichols after Nichols ran away from a traffic stop in 2023.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: memphis, police, police brutality, Tyre Nichols

Tennessee sheriff indicted for profiting from inmate labor, misusing funds

Adrian Sainz, AP

June 15, 2024

Officials say the sheriff of a rural Tennessee county illegally profited from the work of jail and prison inmates under his care and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the prison without permission.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, police, rural Tennessee, sheriff, West Tennessee

Tennessee officers accused of shielding a man committing sex crimes. Police deny extortion.

Jonathan Mattise, AP

June 1, 2024

A federal lawsuit claims police officers in a Tennessee city were paid off to obstruct any efforts to investigate sexual assault allegations against a man that included multiple victims over several years. The Johnson City Police Department has denied the accusation.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, Johnson City, police, sexual assault

Update: Nashville restaurant mass shooting suspect arrested

Miriam Kramer

March 31, 2024

One man is dead and multiple people were injured after a shooting in a Salemtown restaurant on Sunday afternoon, Nashville police confirmed.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: crime, Metro Police, Nashville police, police

What is going on with FUSUS?

Elizabeth Burton

January 25, 2024

What’s going on with FUSUS? And how do you even say it?

Filed Under: Citizen Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: FUSUS, MNPD, Nashville Metro Council, police, surveillance

Nashville police response times have ballooned since 2020. Oversight group says that damages faith in the department.

Paige Pfleger

March 1, 2023

A patrol car in downtown Nashville.

In 2020, it took only 10 minutes for Nashville police to respond to a call about a shooting. Two years later, that wait time had tripled to half an hour.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News Tagged With: community oversight board, MNPD, police

The family of a man shot by Mt. Juliet police wants the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate

Cynthia Abrams

February 21, 2023

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Late last year, a Mt. Juliet police officer fatally shot 39-year-old Eric Jermaine Allen. Last week, a Wilson County grand jury decided not to pursue charges against Police Sgt. Josh Lo. Now, Allen’s family and local organizers are calling for Lo to face a federal investigation.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Black Nashville Assembly, Mt. Juliet, police, police brutality, police chief, police shooting

After Tyre Nichols, what should policing look like?

Steve Haruch

February 7, 2023

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Community activists and lawmakers are demanding change after Memphis Police officers fatally beat Tyre Nichols. But what can be done? Is oversight enough? And what does the future look like — for police and for the community?

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: police

After Naomi Judd’s death, a Tennessee lawmaker has filed a bill to make it harder to release records into death investigations

Blaise Gainey

December 7, 2022

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A Tennessee lawmaker wants to close public records in certain death investigations. The bill comes after the family of Naomi Judd pushed to conceal the release of information following her death.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, death investigations, medical examiners, Naomi Judd, open government, police, The Judds, tnpol

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