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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about Memphis and scorpions....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Memphis and scorpions....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people? Let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about a story that has kind of fallen out of the national news cycle.

0:11.0

But when we were covering it before we said that there was definitely going to be

0:17.0

more more to it and that it would pop up again it's's popping up again. So today we are going to talk about

0:26.8

Memphis and the situation in the developments up there dealing with the five officers who were

0:37.4

charged in the death of Mr Nichols and the

0:45.0

the Scorpion team and all of that. Okay, so first the team itself.

0:50.0

It has been disbanded,

0:52.0

still haven't seen like an overt statement saying that they are abandoning

0:57.0

that concept, just that the team itself was disbanded.

1:05.0

Now, one of the more interesting developments

1:11.0

was some local journalists up there with W-R-E-G.

1:18.2

They did like good old-fashioned, you know, just information requests. they have found out that the DA's office has

1:27.4

dropped 39 cases related to this team.

1:35.0

13 of those were expunged and it looks like more had their charges lowered.

1:41.0

Now... their charges lowered. Now there will probably my guess is that there will

1:48.3

probably be more my understanding is that at this point they've reviewed about a hundred cases.

1:57.4

It is also worth noting that when the civil rights attorneys were up there. They certainly seem to get a lot of stories from the

2:09.0

community that indicated the behavior that we saw on that footage

2:16.0

wasn't exactly like a one-time thing.

2:20.0

And there is a high expectation that there are going to be more developments, more cases and other things come out of this.

2:37.0

It's worth remembering that the feds are also looking into a lot of stuff up there. So the Nichols case, what happened to him,

2:49.6

it fell out of the national news cycle.

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