INSANITY: Following Tyre Nichols beating, lawmakers call for DOJ investigation into Memphis police

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Memphis Commercial Appeal

Five weeks after Tyre Nichols died at St. Francis Hospital, members of the clergy and NAACP are asking for the Department of Justice to open a pattern-and-practice investigation into the Memphis Police Department.

The investigation would take a deeper look at the entire department, searching to see if regular stops, searches or arrests violate the Fourth Amendment, along with looking for signs of discriminatory policing or constitutional rights violations, including First Amendment violations.

A letter written by state representatives G.A. Hardaway and Joe Towns, both of Memphis, said the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in January, appears to be "part of a systemic ‘pattern or practice’ behavior," that violates the U.S. Constitution.

"We believe ‘bad cops’ have been emboldened by the implicit or explicit approval of their superiors to act upon the systemic racist and classist biases within the MPD," the letter states.

The DOJ has already been called in to investigate the specialized units at the Memphis Police Department, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland confirmed Feb. 3, but a pattern-and-practice investigation would have a significantly wider scope."The announcement by the City of Memphis administration to engage with the USDOJ’s voluntary program services, which lack enforcement authority, such as Community Outreach Policing Services (COPS), suggests an administrative preference for a voluntary, collaborative review of a limited scope, which is, in essence simply far too little and much too late," the letter — which included 22 signatures from politicians, clergy and activists — continued.

The FBI has also launched a civil rights investigation into Nichols’ beating, with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation also investigating the officers for criminal conduct.

The calls for an investigation of the entire department came from activists and civil rights leaders around the time the first five officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills, Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith — were fired.

Those calls intensified after the City of Memphis released four videos, three body camera videos and one SkyCop video, that showed the initial traffic stop and then the brutal beating at the hands of MPD officers.

Nichols was pulled over for what officers say was a traffic stop, although MPD Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis later said there was no evidence to show that Nichols ever violated any traffic laws.

Body camera footage shows Nichols being pulled from his car and pushed to the ground by officers, who then yelled a flurry of commands at Nichols.

Nichols was pepper sprayed and then ran away. As he was running, Preston Hemphill — the sixth officer to be fired — shot his taser at Nichols.

Officers caught up to Nichols as he was running towards his mother’s home. He was tackled under 100 yards from the house.

Officers then began to punch, kick, pepper spray and hit Nichols with a baton. He was eventually pulled along the ground and leaned on the side of a police car.

Bean, Mills, Jr., Martin, Smith and Haley have each been indicted and face second-degree murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, official oppression and official misconduct charges. They are due in court Feb. 17.

Nichols’ celebration of life drew in national and local officials, including U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Family members of George Floyd, Eric Garner and Breonna Taylor, each of whom was killed by officers in other states, also attended.

Harris voiced her support of police reform, including a call for the reintroduction of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. A number of figures, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, also called for national reform legislation, along with localized policy reform.