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- Title
Welcome to the Predator State.
- Authors
Gould-Wartofsky, Michael
- Abstract
Thanks to that program, the Memphis police department has managed to obtain a significant stockpile of high-powered rifles and multiple armored personnel carriers, while the State of Tennessee alone has received $131 million worth of weaponry from the Department of Defense. Today, Atlanta's "Titans" have replaced the "RED DOGs" of old, while the very police executive who ran the old unit, Cerelyn "CJ" Davis, was made commissioner of the Memphis police department. To residents of Memphis's resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. Nearly a decade before the slaying of Tyre Nichols, there was, for instance, the murder of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old street vendor, "neighborhood peacekeeper", and father of six.
- Subjects
KILLINGS by police; SEARCH warrants (Law); ENVY; WHITE nationalism; WAR crimes
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article