Horse puckey, Deputy Chief Janice. You can't zero in on "pressure points" with a baton under the "best" of conditions (e.g. unlawfully, with the subject restrained or unconcious) -- batons, expandable or otherwise, are to be used to effect "pain control" and temporary incapacitation through swelling of soft tissue, and not bone, with the legs, and not the arms, as the target.
It would be interesting to learn whether she obtained any police training or was recruited from the ranks of non-sworn police department personnel or other non-LEOs in her town.
However, it would appear that the officers involved either received inadequate training or dumped their adrenaline along with their training during the fray.
More should be expected of shopping mall security officers....
I'll look into that. The feds just nailed a bunch of the MPD's property room personnel on charges of gun and narcotic trafficking and racketeering, and that's not the first such problem in the MPD that the feds have had to clean up.
A couple of years back, the *Organized Crime Bureau* [which unit's duties included the internal affairs investigations] got caught committing fraud and using department-issued credit cards meant for undercover operations for personal use, including vacations. There was a resignation and replacement of the mayor's Police Director over that, and most of the old internal affairs files were shredded as a result, meaning that now you can wonder what sorts of criminality a Memphis cop with over 5 years service has been up to- if ever brought to any official attention, it's now been covered up.
And the questions regarding the MPD's involvement in the Martin Luther King murder- in particular MPD police rifleman Lt. Earl Clark- and other killings, including organized crime hits in the Midsouth remain. The verdict in the ML King civil trial a couple of years baclk makes it pretty clear what those Memphians thought some MPD officers were capable of, at least. And there've been other murders....
-archy-/-
Any news on that front??