• Documents from Tennessee’s law enforcement regulatory and training agency are shining more light on the concerning conduct of the former Memphis Police officers involved in the Jan. 7 traffic stop that body cam video shows ended in the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols.
• A report filed with the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.) Commission that sought the officers’ decertification includes a statement from Officer Justin Smith, who insists he used departmental training during Nichols’ arrest. Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, died at a hospital three days following his encounter with the members of the police department’s now-disbanded Scorpion crime-fighting unit.
• Martin and Haley, according to the internal police documents obtained in a public request of the P.O.S.T. records, were accused of filing false statements. Their accounts of the traffic stop and subsequent apprehension of Tyre, who fled from the officers, don’t match with video from the scene, according to the records.

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