HISTORICAL FACTS: 8 - Caught on Camera

Historical amnesia and the end of days

Apocalypse is no longer a dark fantasy — it's the new normal. It's time to reassert human agency and fight back

Salon · Mar 5, 2023

Don't Just Hire 'Better Cops.' Punish the Bad Ones.

Convincing law enforcement officers that those who do wrong will suffer consequences is by far the most powerful tool for changing police behavior in the long run.

Reason · Mar 5, 2023

Fired Memphis EMT says police impeded Tyre Nichols' care

A former Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technician has told a Tennessee board that officers “impeded patient care” by refusing to remove Tyre Nichols’ handcuffs, which would have allowed EMTs to check Nichols' vital signs after he was brutally beaten by police

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023

4th Fire Department employee probed in Tyre Nichols case

A top Memphis official says a fourth Fire Department employee is being investigated as part of the city’s probe into the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

Memphis to consider version of Philadelphia law that bans minor traffic stops in response to Tyre Nichols killing

A Philadelphia law that bars police from pulling over drivers for some minor traffic offenses has inspired a similar bill in Memphis, Tenn., where five police officers are facing murder charges for the January death of Tyre Nichols.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 21, 2023

Black activist threatened with ‘execution’ by British ‘Neo Nazi group’ in chilling letter

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu says she received a letter at her home address on Monday from a sender claiming to a part of National Action, an extremist group, saying she’s on their “kill list” and will be “executed”

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023

Accountability or surveillance? Palm Beach County deputies can now livestream from body cameras

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office recently became one of the last departments in South Florida to equip its deputies with body cameras. Now, it is one of the first in the state to use cameras that livestream.

Tribune News Service · Feb 19, 2023

Former Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death plead not guilty

Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, with his mother saying afterward that none of them would look her in the eye in court.

France 24 · Feb 18, 2023

My preschooler's first police stop

"Daddy, I'm a ballerina!" she says, while I think about how quickly these stops can go wrong for Black drivers

Salon · Feb 17, 2023

Tyre Nichols: Five former Memphis police officers plead not guilty to murder of dad-of-one

The former officers made their first court appearance since Nichols’ death

Evening Standard · Feb 17, 2023