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The article reports on the deployment of Memphis Police officers to work as a strike team in charged with street crimes operation and peace restoration in Memphis, Tennessee. The unit is called Scorpion which is a strategy launched by Cerelyn Davis, chief of Memphis Police and is the first African American woman to lead the department. But due to complaints from some residents claiming that the officers use heavy-handed tactics, the unit was disbanded and Davis called for a review of the units.

The article reports on the police beating of 29-year old African American Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee after he was pulled over by five police officers on January 7, 2023 that led to his death in the hospital three days after the incident. Topics discussed are fear, trauma, pain and exhaustion that African Americans and Brown Americans experience, police culture as the culprit of Nichols' death and charges including kidnapping, second-degree murder and oppression filed against the police.

The article reports that the Memphis police force had not been at the center of the recent national debates over policing after the death of Tyre Nichols, despite a series of conflicts, and Social media posts show harbored a mistrust of prevailing government and economic systems.