Far from “restoring peace,” officers in the SCORPION unit turned the streets of Memphis into a violent scene that led to death, writes Marjorie Cohn.
By Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
The Memphis police officers who killed Tyre Nichols were members of a unit called SCORPION the Street Crimes
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peter bowes. jody armour is professor of law at the university of southern california. he has written a book about america s criminal justice system, which he argues is among the most deadliest and racist in the world. thank you forjoining me. good thank you for “oining me. good to be with thank you forjoining me. good to be with you. rodney king, george floyd it goes on and on. what is it that isn t working? it seems there is an underlying pattern we keep waking up again and again to the same racial injustice groundhog day, it seems, and we never seem to get at the underlying issues or problems. we seem to think a reform here, a tweak their will make the necessary adjustments and we can go on so we think what a game, implicit bias community policing, deescalation training, they have all of that and more in memphis and places like