MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Reginald Dean took a long pull on his cigarette ... The incident brought widespread scrutiny of the Memphis Police Department’s Scorpion unit, which was supposed to target violent ...

Three days after the stop, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced ... had called on the police department to disband the SCORPION unit at a news conference on Friday.

“The Scorpion unit was involved,” Shelby County, Tennessee, District Attorney Steve Mulroy said Thursday at a news conference where he announced murder charges against five officers. The ...

The Director of Tennessee Bureau of Investigation David ... was a member of the hand-picked SCORPION team, a specialized unit formed in 2021 to fight violent street crime. The name SCORPION ...

More Memphis Police Department/Facebook The same day, Steve Mulroy, district attorney for Shelby County, Tennessee, confirmed that Scorpion members were among those responsible for the alleged ...

The so-called SCORPION Unit – which stood for Street ... It extends so much further." Tennessee Democrats say they'll propose police reforms this year Top Democrats in Tennessee's state ...

MEMPHIS, Tennessee — The Memphis Police Department will "permanently deactivate" its SCORPION Unit, the department said Saturday, as protesters gathered for a second night of demonstrations over ...

“The whole idea that the Scorpion unit is a bad unit ... Travis Loller in Nashville, Tennessee, and Rebecca Reynolds in Lexington, Kentucky, contributed to this report.