
Katie Riordan
ReporterKatie is a freelance contributor to WKNO. She's always eager to hear your story ideas. You can email her at kriordan@wkno.org
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Five Black ex-Memphis Police officers have been jailed and charged with murder in the beating death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols. The police chief called the beating heinous, reckless and inhumane.
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Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis says five officers who were directly responsible for the physical abuse of Tyre Nichols acted in a “heinous, reckless and inhumane” manner.
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A federal investigation continues into the death of Tyre Nichols, who died days after Memphis Police officers arrested him earlier this month.
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Attorneys for the Black man who died after a traffic stop say video shows Memphis, Tenn., police beating him like a "human piñata." Lawyers and Nichols' family saw the video for the first time Monday.
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Following an internal investigation and administrative hearings, the Memphis Police Department announced Friday the firing of five officers involved in the arrest of Tyre Nichols, who died days after the encounter.
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As the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation continues its examination of Memphis Police officers' use of force in the arrest of Tyre Nichols, the United States Department of Justice is also opening a civil rights investigation.
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While family and friends paid tribute Tuesday to a man who died following a recent confrontation with Memphis police, city officials also announced Tuesday that video footage from the incident will be forthcoming.
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Local activists gathered around the grieving family of Tyre Nichols at the National Civil Rights Museum in Downtown Memphis on Monday, chanting for justice as crowds of museum visitors marked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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It was shaping up to be a typical workday. That is: typical for a top pilot in the Afghan Air Force. But his routine flight that day would soon become his final one out of the country. It was August 15, 2021, and the Taliban had entered Kabul.
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A longtime group of Memphians have found friends and connection in contra—a distinct communal dance form done to live, folksy music.