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Protesters at the state Capitol in 2020Photo: Stephen Elliott
The Tennessee House of Representatives has followed the state Senate’s lead and overwhelmingly passed a series of changes to Tennessee’s police use-of-force policies. The changes, which were crafted in partnership with law enforcement representatives, would ban chokeholds unless an officer believes deadly force is authorized, require the teaching of chokeholds during police training, require law enforcement agencies to develop deescalation policies, require officers to intervene when witnessing excessive force by other officers, prohibit firing weapons at moving vehicles unless an officer believes deadly force is authorized and prohibit the issuance of no-knock warrants.
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Pete Meenen and the Tennesseans We Lost to COVID-19
The state’s first resident claimed by a virus that went on to kill many more
On March 21, the Brentwood Family YMCA shared the news that Pete Meenen, a greeter at the gym and community center for more than 20 years, had died. He was the first person in Tennessee to die from COVID-19.
“Perhaps few faces in a YMCA are as recognizable as the greeter who meets the morning faithful, the early risers who start their day with us when the Welcome Center is a little quieter than usual,” the Brentwood Y’s operations executive, Roger D. Grove, wrote on Facebook. “For more than 20 years, Pete was that face in our YMCA, and his loss will be deeply felt by all of us, our staff and our members.”
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