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The Metro Nashville Police Department released partial footage the day after the shooting but denied an open records request for the full footage from the scene, saying the investigation was still open.
In Tennessee, state law allows but does not require law enforcement agencies to keep records confidential if they are related to an ongoing investigation.
Body camera footage from previous police shootings was released while investigations were still active. Footage from a March shootout that left a woman dead and an officer wounded was released within a week. Footage from a non-fatal police shooting of a woman threatening suicide and wielding a pick ax in March was also released within a week.
Nashville is no stranger to police brutality protests.
In recent years, people have marched in the streets and camped outside the halls of power. They carried signs, shouted chants and disrupted the order of the day. Protesters then and still do want people to pay attention to the problem and the trauma, and they want change.
The majority of protests in Nashville occur without incident although the city saw an exception last year. Pastors, a protest leader and police shared their thoughts on why most demonstrations in the city tend to be peaceful.
Pastor Kelli X, who leads The Village Church, said everyone in Nashville is connected to someone. The connectedness of the city creates space for peace, she said.
Metro Nashville police are asking the public for help in identifying a group of young men who have been targeting short-term properties in the Archer Street area for the past month.
Midtown Hills Precinct detectives are working to identify the suspects, some captured on video surveillance in the area who burglarize the homes just north of Edgehill Avenue and east of 12th Avenue South.
In some incidents, the suspects as many as seven individuals caught on video steal vehicles once keys have been located inside the properties.
Police said the group is also suspected of breaking into parked cars and trucks in that area.
Man charged with breaking into Hermitage apartment, sexually assaulting woman
Metro police made an arrest Thursday after a woman reported she was sexually assaulted after she said a man broke into her Hermitage apartment.
Gregory Finn Jr., 31, is charged with aggravated burglary and sexual battery in connection to a break-in at the Cherry Creek Apartments on Crystal Spring Lane, Metro Nashville Police Department spokeswoman Kris Mumford said.
According to Mumford, a neighbor of the woman was walking his dog Wednesday night when saw a man knocking on random doors at the apartment complex.
When he saw the man walk to another building and peer into multiple sliding glass patio doors, the neighbor called police.