Weeks after Memphis Mayor Paul Young said now-former Assistant Chief Shawn Jones was no longer with the Memphis Police Department, an internal document shows Jones was “terminated,” though the language may not add much more clarity to the departure.
In the wake of Jones’ departure, interim MPD Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis, alongside Deputy Chief Joe Oakley, presented data that indicated crime is down through the first half of the year compared to the same time frame last year.
Later that day, the Memphis City Council approved a ballot referendum that — if passed by Memphians in the November election — would establish local gun control laws.
And, in a blow to Memphis’ activist community, local police reform activist Chelsea Glass — part of the group of Memphians who pushed reform ordinances after Tyre Nichols was beaten by police — died Sunday after a long battle with a respiratory illness.
Internal document shows former MPD assistant chief was ‘terminated’
Jones was “terminated” from his position with MPD, an internal document obtained by The Commercial Appeal confirmed.