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► UPDATE, JAN. 17: MPD says it will release video footage from Tyre Nichols arrest *** MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Activists, friends, and family members of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old who died last week after a confrontation with Memphis Police, protested outside the National Civil Rights Museum as thousands gathered to mark Dr. Martin Luther […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Tyre Nichols was beaten by police for three minutes, 80 to 100 yards from his home as he called repeatedly for his mother, whose name was tattooed on his arm, family members and attorneys said Monday. Nichols’ mother and stepfather were joined by their attorneys at a Memphis church Monday, shortly […]

DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — A large group of sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patient Irvo Otieno to the floor earlier this month until he was motionless and limp, then began unsuccessful resuscitation efforts, newly obtained surveillance video shows. The footage obtained Tuesday, which has no audio, shows various members of […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights signed a “court-enforceable settlement agreement” Friday to revamp policing in the city where George Floyd was murdered by an officer nearly three years ago. The agency issued a blistering report last year after an investigation found the police department had engaged […]

UPDATE: Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith were released on bond Thursday, according to online records. Read more. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Five former Tennessee police officers were charged Thursday in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, according to online records. The officers, who were fired after Nichols’ death, were booked into the Shelby County […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Memphis man, after a traffic stop turned into a confrontation with Memphis Police this month has brought national scrutiny to the department and the city. On Jan. 20, five Memphis police officers were fired after the department concluded its investigation into the death of Tyre […]

DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — Video from a state mental hospital shows a Black Virginia man who was handcuffed and shackled being pinned to the ground by seven deputies who are now facing second-degree murder charges in his death, according to relatives of the man and their attorneys who viewed the footage Thursday. Three people employed […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A pregnant Louisiana woman who was denied an abortion — even though her fetus has a rare and fatal condition — demanded on Friday that Gov. John Bel Edwards and the legislature call a special session to clarify the state’s restrictions on the procedure. Nancy Davis, who is 15 weeks […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The family of a man shot and killed by police in Bolivar, Tennessee earlier this month has retained civil rights attorney Ben Crump as their lawyer. Andra Davon Murphy, 43, from Toone, Tennessee, was killed Oct. 6 outside the Hardeman County Sheriff’s Office. Law enforcement said a man had approached correctional officers […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements were set to occur Tuesday after a jury was chosen in a trial that mashes up Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” with Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s co-writer of the 1973 soul classic, sued Sheeran, alleging the English pop star’s hit 2014 […]

Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial of a former Lonoke County deputy who was charged with manslaughter after shooting and killing a teen during a traffic stop.