Observation of one journalist (me): It’s like public officials are speaking rioting into existence by all their fearful talk. I haven’t seen any indication of that on the ground and especially at the vigil tonight. Rage, yes. Sadness, yes. But nothing violent. #TyreNichols
The MPD officers fired for motorist Tyre Nichols' death engaged in a variety of aggressive "zero tolerance''-type policing tactics in recent months as part of special unit called SCORPION. Our investigation: https://t.co/vPSElI7mhj
@Mediaverse I am afraid you missed the point of this story. What it tells us is that MPD issued a warrant for Cleotha Henderson’s arrest for the FedEx Freight burglaries on Aug. 12, 2021, more than five weeks before the Sept. 21, 2021 rape of Alicia Franklin. MPD did not arrest him before
@Mediaverse As for the strength of the burglary case, it’s evident from reading the affidavit that police did no real investigation of the FedEx Freight burglaries – just went out and watched the company’s security video and mischarged Henderson with theft while in fact he likely was guilty
@Mediaverse MPD accountable for this massive failure. This deeply reported story raises troubling questions about MPD’s seeming indifference to the rape of Black woman. It’s doubly disturbing that less than three months later, on Sept. 2, 2022, Henderson then allegedly killed Eliza Fletcher.
@Mediaverse was arrested nearly a year later for the burglaries – in June 2022 – he sat in jail for three days and police STILL did not question him about the rape. Instead, he was released without bond. Then, the theft charges were dismissed and expunged, making it more difficult to hold
@Mediaverse the rape. Worse yet, it didn’t arrest him on this warrant during the rape investigation. The sex crimes detectives working the rape case had information about the warrant at their fingertips, yet didn’t bother to bring Henderson in. Why? Worse than that, when Henderson finally