Tyre Nichols’s death by police beating shined a national spotlight on Memphis’ police force — and Cerelyn J. Davis, its chief. Two years into her tenure, she’s leading a force engulfed in crisis with five former officers charged with second-degree murder.
The next year, Davis was selected to lead the department in Memphis, a city of about 628,000, from a pool of seven finalists, according to the city. Other candidates included deputy chiefs within the department along with outside candidates, among them veterans of the Philadelphia and Seattle police forces.
In an interview Friday, Davis said her time advocating for police reform after Floyd’s death convinced her that she needed to set an example in swiftly firing the officers involved in Nichols’s beating. Police chiefs, she said, need to move quickly in these circumstances. “If officers were allowed to view video footage, then they would have fashioned their statements based on the video footage as opposed to their real recollection of what actually occurred,” she said.
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