On January 15, the Memphis Police Department issued a statement on its “internal investigation” into the death of Tyre Nichols — five days after the 29-year-old black man died. MPD said it “was important to take swift and deliberate action to maintain transparency, accountability, public trust, and legitimacy amongst our community.”
But the troubled police department has had a host of transparency troubles surrounding the brutal beating of Nichols at the hands of five black police officers – and a history of closed government offenses.
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