Tennessee

Context | Current Aggressions

26 MAY 2022 Video Tears Apart Every Lie a Knoxville Cop Told In Report After Violent Arrest of 21-Year-Old Black Woman. It Would Take Months and An Unrelated Case to Expose Him | https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/05/26/justify-his-violent-treatment-graphic-video-shows-knoxville-cop-tearing-womans-top-off-in-wrongful-arrest-then-lies-in-police-report-judge-calls-video-disturbing-before-dismissing-charges/

16 MAY 2022 ‘I smell marijuana’: cops’ warrantless searches targets poor, minority Tennessee communities | https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/05/16/12462/

12 MAY 2022 In Rare Move, 6th Circuit Court sacks immunity for Lawrenceburg cop in 2018 shooting | https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/05/12/6th-circuit-court-sacks-immunity-for-lawrenceburg-cop-in-2018-shooting/

12 MAY 2022 Metro Nashville Police Department Officer indicted on sex crimes | https://whnt.com/news/tennessee-news/metro-nashville-police-department-officer-two-teachers-indicted-on-sex-crimes/

7 MAY 2022 16-Year Old Trans Girl Detained By Police Mid-Livestream For Not Attending School That Misgendered Her | https://www.thegamer.com/twitch-livestream-trans-girl-police-foster-care-school-viowynn-keffals/

3 MAY 2022 ‘Hundreds of images’ Corporal at Tennessee special needs prison facing child porn charges | https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2022/05/03/police-charge-tennessee-prison-corporal-possession-child-porn/9633589002/

26 APR 2022 Daughters of Lexington man killed by Tennessee police plea for answers | https://www.lex18.com/news/lex-in-depth/daughters-of-lexington-man-killed-by-tennessee-police-plea-for-answers

21 MAR 2022 ‘Please don’t hurt me’: Video shows Tennessee officer using stun gun on Black delivery driver | https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2022/03/21/video-shows-tennessee-officer-using-stun-gun-black-delivery-driver/9458987002/

11 MAR 2022 TN Association of Chiefs of Police president resigns amid financial accountability concerns | https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2022/03/11/tennessee-association-chiefs-police-president-resigns-director-suspended/6998342001/

24 FEB 2022 Fury over ‘reckless’ Tennessee bill that would class some gun owners as police | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/24/tennessee-gun-owners-bill-police-legislation


2021


8 OCT 2021 Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge | https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist

17 SEP 2021 Millersville Police Department Is So Bad, a Cop Reported It to Black Lives Matter | https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-police-department-is-so-bad-a-cop-reported-it-to-black-lives-matter?ref=home

10 AUG 2021 Family of man allegedly killed over loud music by security guard asks for justice | https://abcnews.go.com/US/family-man-allegedly-killed-loud-music-security-guard/story?id=79378210&cid=clicksource_4380645_2_three_posts_card_hed

Legislation

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