4 of the officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death had previously been disciplined by the department for car crashes, excessive force, and more, according to personnel records shared with NPR.
Four of those officers — Haley, Martin, Mills and Smith — were reprimanded or suspended earlier for their failure to report when they used physical force, failure to report a domestic dispute, or for damages sustained to their squad cruisers, according to the files from Memphis police. Bean did not have any reprimands or suspensions in the files.
In August 2021, Haley crashed into a stop sign while responding to a call about an aggravated assault and was given a traffic ticket. During the hearing about the incident, Haley said that as he was driving to the scene, a call came over the radio that one of the responding officers was holding the suspect at gunpoint and that he sped there"only thinking about the officer's safety."
It was Mills' first infraction, and he immediately reported the incident to his union representative, so he received a written reprimand, according to department records. In March 2019, a loaded handgun was found in the rear passenger side of a squad car used by Martin and his partner. In September 2020, Martin violated protocol by mishandling a domestic abuse complaint between two sisters, one of whose husband requested a report. Martin did not take the report and said he did not believe one was necessary, reasoning that the parties involved were intoxicated and the man's wife – the alleged victim of abuse – did not want the report.
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