The Justice Department will look at the Memphis Police Department’s special units and use of force, using an office that conservatives have targeted in budgets.
A sixth Memphis officer was fired after an internal police investigation showed he violated multiple department policies in the violent arrest of Tyre Nichols.
Lucy Garrett/Getty Images(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) Â The Department of Justice will help conduct a review of the Memphis Police Department following the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, city officials said. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced Friday that the DOJ's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, along with the International Association of Police Chiefs, will conduct an "independent, external review" that will include assessing the department's special units and use-of-force policies "to honor Tyre and help make sure this type of tragedy does not happen again." "While we no doubt have a long way to go on the road to healing, hopefully through our actions, citizens will see we are working to be better and that we are heading down the right path," Strickland said in a bulletin. Nichols, 29, died on Jan. 10, three days after he was beaten by police after he ran from a traffic stop in Memphis. Graphic footage of the violent confrontation rele