Tyre Nichols' death underscores the troubled history of specialized police units
- Written by Ian T. Adams, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina
Members of Memphis' SCORPION unit were behind the brutal beating of a suspect.City of Memphis via APThe officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols were not your everyday uniformed patrol officers.
Rather, they were part of an elite squad: Memphis Police Department’s SCORPION team. A rather tortured acronym for “Street Crimes...




