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Federal Judge Orders New Trial for Ex-MPD Officers Convicted in Tyre Nichols Case

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Just like every major city in the United States of America, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, has had its share of corruption. going back to the days of the notorious Boss Crump.

Within my lifetime, Memphians have borne witness to the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the infamous Ford family of municipal and state politicians whose  corruption carries on to this day.

I’m pretty sure that’s why Harold Ford Jr. got the heck out of Dodge and moved up to the Northeast.

In September 2018, Chamber of Commerce President Phil Trenary was on South Front Street near G.E. Patterson, coming home from running in a race held in Downtown Memphis when someone in a white truck drove up and shot him. The suspects then took off.

He had previously been CEO of Pinnacle Airlines and was a tireless advocate for Memphis.

Two men were later arrested and tried on lesser charges than murder, and given 25 and 35 years respectively, with time served, which knocked off 5 years.

Their story was that they were looking for somebody to rob. In the trial, the Defense argued that one of the men was mentally impaired because of alcohol and cocaine in his mother’s bloodstream.

The question remains to this day: What are the odds that they would choose the President and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce?

What started me thinking about the subject of corruption was the news that came out late this week concerning the former Memphis Police Officers found guilty of the murder of Tyree Nichols.

Per WashingtonExaminer.com,

“A federal judge on Thursday granted three former Memphis Police Department officers  convicted for their roles in the death of Tyre Nichols a new trial due to concerns about judicial bias.

Nichols’s death while in MPD custody in Tennessee sparked nationwide protests and calls for police reform in 2023 due to accusations that he was unfairly targeted and treated by law enforcement during a traffic stop.

The case took a new turn this week when Chief United States District Judge Sheryl Lipman granted Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith a new trial because of concerns that Judge Mark Norris, who oversaw the previous trial in which the three men were convicted last October, was biased against the officers and the MPD.

Norris recused himself from the case days before the officers’ sentencing, leading Lipman to take over proceedings in June.

Lipman said she believed Norris made rulings that were “sound, fair, and grounded firmly in the law.” However, “the appearance of judicial bias against the MPD created “an unconstitutional probability of bias” requiring a new trial, she wrote.

“Justice must not only be done but must manifestly be seen to be done,” she said in the ruling, arguing that the perception of bias could undermine public confidence in the verdict.

The concerns about the appearance of bias against the MPD stem from an incident involving one of Norris’s law clerks who had assisted the judge during the Nichols trial.

After the clerk was attacked in a separate shooting, Norris met with federal prosecutors and an FBI special agent about the incident, and alleged during that encounter that “at least one” of the MPD officers charged in the Nichols case was also involved in targeting his clerk.

During the May 2025 meeting, the judge also said that the MPD was “infiltrated to the top with gang members,” an assistant U.S. attorney present at the meeting said, according to court documents.”

Mark Norris is known as a very honest man and a very fair and smart judge.

Sheryl Lipman is a Chief US District Judge appointed by former President Barack Hussein Obama.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

If gangs have indeed infiltrated the Memphis Police Department from top to bottom and if the shooting of Judge Norris’s Clerk was done to intimidate the judge to drop the case or to recuse himself as he did, then this case screams for the FBI to look into it.

Given the crime rate in the outrageous number of homicides, carjacking, assaults, and robberies in Memphis, which are now moving like a crippling fog spreading to the suburbs including those across Mississippi State Line, I believe that Memphis needs a Clean Sweep Operation such as was just ordered by President Trump and carried out by the National Guard.

Just like other Democrat-run cities, the Memphis mayor and his administration have gotten in front of the cameras and said they would not cooperate with such an operation.

Perhaps, it’s not just the Memphis Police Department that the gangs have possibly infiltrated.

Just like every law-abiding average American, Memphians deserve to be able to enjoy the city that their tax money pays for without fear.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Well, Memphis…What Now?

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As a 64-year-old resident of the Memphis Area, I have borne witness to the governmental mismanagement and resulting decay and degeneration of what was once one of the friendliest places in the country to live.

There are still friendly people in Memphis, but, chances are, they work in Memphis and are living in the suburbs.

The mass exodus of Memphis taxpayers started when Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, who occupied that office from 1991-2008, told taxpayers of a Caucasian persuasion, if they did not like the way he was running the city, they could leave.

So, they did.

Since then, violent crime in Memphis has steadily risen, to the point where some suburban husbands will not allow their families to enter Memphis during the day or night.

On February 6, 2013, the Majority-Black-Democrat Memphis City Council renamed three Confederate-themed parks to prevent some State legislators from blocking such name changes.

The council passed a resolution to immediately rename Confederate Park and Jefferson Davis Park in downtown Memphis and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, which lies just a few miles away. The vote was 9-0 with three members abstaining.

Later, in the middle of the night, all Confederate Statues were removed from City Parks as a result of a shady business deal and political shenanigans.

Meanwhile, the black-on-black homicidal genocide continues in what was once the “City of Good Abode”, keeping it constantly in the top echelon of the FBI’s Most Dangerous Cities List.

And, assault, auto theft, and carjacking have skyrocketed, as well.

So now, after the Black Majority City Council ran veteran police officers away by cutting their benefits, including their retirement plans. Five Black Memphis City Police Officers savagely beat a Black Memphian at a traffic stop, leading to his death.

It must be the fault of “Systematic Racism”.

It just HAS to be the fault of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife…maybe even his horse. Oh, wait. His statue was removed in the dead of night years ago, and he and his wife’s remains were dug up and moved in 2021.

It has to be. Otherwise, the people who have been responsible for the descent of “The City of Good Abode” into Detroit South, where black Americans are being murdered every night of the week, would have to be held responsible for their own actions.

And we can’t have that, now…

Can we?

Just asking.

But, by gosh, by golly, if all of the “Systematic Racism” was eliminated in Memphis, then the looting by thugs who busted out storefronts Friday night in East Memphis would have never happened.

…And, I’m actually a blonde 22-year old Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader named “Buffy”.

At this rate, those in charge in Memphis might as well leave their heads up the dark and lonely place where they are because they are certainly not using them to think.

Until He Comes.

KJ

Memphis Deja Vu: Protests Erupt as Videos of Tyre Nichols Released on Youtube

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I remember on April 4, 1968, as a 9 year old in Memphis, Tennessee, watching my parents’ black and white television as the National Guard was called into action on the night that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

I remember, after a Civil Defense Announcement came on ordering National Guard members to gather at the Armory, that President Lyndon Johnson came on National Television to make the announcement of Dr. King’s death.

I remember a feeling of helplessness and of fear, as a nine-year-old, that I had not felt before.

It wasn’t just the fact that we were living in Midtown Memphis, that made me afraid.

It wasn’t just the fact of the out-of-control violence itself that caused my consternation. It was watching my beloved Hometown on the verge of going up in flames.

As I am writing this, it is now January 27, 2023, and I am watching my hometown once again on the verge of bursting into flames.

As you may know, a young Black man named Tyre Nichols was recently savagely beaten by 5 Black Memphis Policemen after running from them during a traffic stop.

The young man died two days later as a result of that beating.

The incident quickly became a featured story on all of the television news channels.

After suspending, firing, indicting, and jailing the officers involved, the local authorities decided that tonight (Friday) would be appropriate to release the video taken from the body cams of the 5 police officers on youtube.com.

It’s almost as if they wanted a repeat of that awful night so many years ago.

Right now, protesters, paid and unpaid, have blocked off the I-55 Bridge that crosses the Mississippi River linking Tennessee and Arkansas.

These protesters are handing out professionally produced pamphlets.

Meanwhile, “protests” are being held in Democrat-run cities like Atlanta and Seattle.

I am experiencing a feeling of deja vu…and it’s not just from that awful night in 1968.

It’s also from the Antifa/BLM “Summer of Riots” in 2020.

If you don’t believe that these “protests” have all been organized by the same people for political purposes, you haven’t been paying attention.

I don’t believe that this was the “dream” that Dr. King spoke so eloquently about.

God protect us.

Until He Comes,

KJ