The danger of fear mongering is that it can lead a community to stop asking questions. And so you have these additional officers coming in, so-called elite units being formed. In this case, it was the Scorpion unit where the officers who have been charged with Tyree's murder,. They were all a part of this elite unit called the Scorpion unit. But we didn't ask at what costs those arrests were coming. We didn't ask if use of force complaints had increased. The only thing that matters is being tough on crime and making sure the rights are following by any means necessary.
Memphis braced for an explosive reaction to footage of the deadly police beating. It never came. Wendi C. Thomas of the nonprofit newsroom MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, wasn’t surprised: “I know this city.”
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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