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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
Tyre Nichols' death underscores the troubled history of specialized police unitsMembers of Memphis' SCORPION unit were behind the brutal beating of a suspect.City of Memphis via AP

The 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...

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