Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by a group of five Memphis police officers who purposely and violently denied not only his civil rights but his humanity. Three of those officers, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith, were convicted of federal criminal charges despite being acquitted of any wrongdoing by the charges brought by the state.
Unfortunately, those convictions are in jeopardy due to comments made by the judge who presided over the case, according to new reporting by NBC News.
U.S. District Judge Mark Norris expressed intense distrust in the Memphis Police Department after one of his clerks was shot in the chest during a carjacking on Oct. 8, 2024, and an unnamed assistant U.S. attorney claimed that “[Norris] could not meet with any member of the Memphis Police Department to give a statement regarding the shooting of his clerk, as MPD is ‘infiltrated to the top with gang members.’”…