The Memphis Police Department's new program to combat juvenile crime in downtown areas has been halted after community organizations denounced it as racist and likely to target and criminalize Black youth.
“When I was younger, and on the East Coast like Philly and New York, walking around with super baggy jeans on was inappropriate because you could be carrying anything in your clothes, or you’d be accused of trying to steal something. It’s just shifted language, which is on the same pathway of how to criminalize mostly Black youth, or Black culture for the youth.”
Orrin emphasized that the Juvenile Abatement Team would use pretextual stops and specialized units that have been criticized after the brutal beating and killing of Tyre Nichols by MPD officers and are currently“I feel like there’s a major element of danger that is coming [to] youth downtown,” Joshua Adams, a member of Black Lives Matter’s Memphis chapter,, Memphis. “It doesn’t seem to be about safety.
and taken into custody. Additionally, if the child’s parents or guardians do not pick their child up, the police will turn the child over to the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services and charge the parents or guardians with child abandonment.
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