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A freeze frame from police body camera footage shows Drew Thomas’ puffy face after a police officer sprayed him with a chemical irritant. One officer said Thomas’ face was bloody because he kept banging his head against the squad car door after he was sprayed.

A freeze frame from police body camera footage shows Drew Thomas’ puffy face after a police officer sprayed him with a chemical irritant. One officer said Thomas’ face was bloody because he kept banging his head against the squad car door after he was sprayed.

Watchdog

Bodycam: Memphis Officer unleashes vile tirade, repeatedly pepper foams handcfuffed, mentally ill ‘Frequent flyer’

Video released as part of investigation by The…

Marc Perrusquia October 16, 2020

Toh Gang (left) and Lakshmi Nellore process samples at Poplar Healthcare Sept. 22, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Toh Gang (left) and Lakshmi Nellore process samples at Poplar Healthcare Sept. 22, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

The Pandemic

Poplar Healthcare serves as real time example of how to mobilize during pandemic; provides key support to Memphis

Local lab built its own coronavirus…

David WatersOctober 9, 2020

Memphis Theological Seminary president Rev. Dr. Jody Hill gets a socially distanced update from recruiter Felecia LaVant while preparing for the upcoming semester on Wednesday, Aug. 19. “The seminary exists to serve congregations, and, in dark times, it becomes clear how essential that work is,” said Hill, who became the seminary’s president in January. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Memphis Theological Seminary president Rev. Dr. Jody Hill gets a socially distanced update from recruiter Felecia LaVant while preparing for the upcoming semester on Wednesday, Aug. 19. “The seminary exists to serve congregations, and, in dark times, it becomes clear how essential that work is,” said Hill, who became the seminary’s president in January. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

The Pandemic

Seminary accepts challenge of protecting students while teaching them to serve those with potentially fatal virus

“We are not the first people of faith to have lived in a time of…

David WatersAugust 21, 2020

A client of lawyer Jacob Webster Brown looks out his attorney’s office window on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The client contends in a federal lawsuit that a Memphis Police Department officer sexually assaulted him during a stop-and-frisk operation last year. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

A client of lawyer Jacob Webster Brown looks out his attorney’s office window on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The client contends in a federal lawsuit that a Memphis Police Department officer sexually assaulted him during a stop-and-frisk operation last year. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)

Watchdog

Stop and Frisk incident leads to suspension of MPD officers

Arrestee alleges sexual assault in federal…

Marc PerrusquiaOctober 3, 2020

Faye Smith ran Idlewild Presbyterian Church’s kitchen for 29 years, a tenure longer than any senior pastor in church history. (Photo by Carl Awsumb)

Faith

Idlewild loses another ‘pastor’; church kitchen was Smith-Redditt’s pulpit for 29 years

“Faye’s kitchen was a refuge — a confessional and a safe zone.”

David WatersSeptember 5, 2020

Antonio Strawder stands outside his North Memphis home on Aug. 26, next to the spot where he was repeatedly shocked with a Taser by Memphis Police Department officer Otto Kiehl while being arrested for driving without a license. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Antonio Strawder stands outside his North Memphis home on Aug. 26, next to the spot where he was repeatedly shocked with a Taser by Memphis Police Department officer Otto Kiehl while being arrested for driving without a license. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Watchdog

Investigation: MPD officer repeatedly used taser on handcuffed suspect

Incident captured on video

Marc PerrusquiaSeptember 4, 2020

PSRMemphis

PSRMemphis

Watchdog

Eric Kelly, Former MPD homicide detective, indicted for misconduct

Kelly's alleged sexual relationship with murder suspect was the subject of an investigation by The Institute.

Marc PerrusquiaSeptember 3, 2020

Stoy Bailey stands in front of a Victorian cottage, one of the first houses built in the first black subdivision in the city of Memphis. The house was built around 1900, and while Orange Mound was an older area, it was classified as part of the county when the North Annesdale subdivision was built. Bailey died July 4 at age 86. (Lance Murphey/Daily Memphian file)

Stoy Bailey stands in front of a Victorian cottage, one of the first houses built in the first black subdivision in the city of Memphis. The house was built around 1900, and while Orange Mound was an older area, it was classified as part of the county when the North Annesdale subdivision was built. Bailey died July 4 at age 86. (Lance Murphey/Daily Memphian file)

Neighborhoods

‘Original Community organizer’ Stoy Bailey mourned as humble champion

“Stoy was a kind and caring soul who devoted his life to helping others."

David WatersAugust 30, 2020

Audio Story

Special audio Presentation of The Institute’s rape Kit Investigation: “I’ve lived with it every day of my life.”

For years in Memphis, sexual assault victims didn't get the justice they deserved or the law required.

Marc PerrusquiaAugust 26, 2020

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