The Justice Department will team up with a prominent police chiefs’ group for an “independent” review of the Tennessee department at the request of Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland.
“To honor Tyre and help make sure this type of tragedy does not happen again, the City of Memphis has engaged the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services … and the International Association of Police Chiefs to conduct a review of the Memphis Police Department,”“The independent, external review by these agencies will include an assessment of MPD’s Special Units and use of force policies.
Tyre Nichols, 29, a Memphis FedEx worker, was fatally beaten by city cops during a traffic stop Jan. 7. The department is now under federal scrutiny.The move comes as the city reels from the fatal beating of the 29-year-old FedEx worker Jan. 7, with bodycam footage showing the brutal attack. Six Memphis police officers and three Memphis Fire Department members have been fired in the wake of the Jan. 7 police-custody death of FedEx worker Tyre Nichols.The cops — Tadarrius Bean, 24; Demetrius Haley, 30; Emmitt Martin III, 30; Desmond Mills, Jr., 32, and Justin Smith, 28 — were fired after the incident and arrested.
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