The GOP-led state legislature has voted on a bill that would restrict local governments from passing police reform measures.
House Bill 1931 was introduced after Memphis approved police reform measures in response to the death of Tyre Nichols last year.
Desmond Mills Jr. has also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, who are recommending a 15-year sentence for his role in Nichols' death.
The officers were captured on body camera footage brutally beating the 29-year-old Black man.
The man attempted to enter Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva of the South on Monday and fired a gun outside when he couldn’t get in, police said.
Eliza Fletcher, 34, was seen being forced into an SUV during her early-morning run before she was found dead.
“We know now what we knew then,” attorneys for Nichols' family said after being briefed on the official results.
Crisis negotiators took the suspect, armed with an “AR-style rifle,” into custody.
The Memphis-based group, Friends of George’s, says Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law that placed strict limits on drag shows violates the First Amendment.
Three leaders from different racial justice organizations say traffic stops are the wrong way to deter crime.
