Robert Klemko

• Justice

The lawsuit compares the beating of Tyre Nichols to the 1955 killing of Emmett Till and describes the officers involved as a “modern-day lynch mob.”

• National

Reps. Justin Pearson, reinstated Wednesday, and Justin Jones, reinstated Monday, were expelled for leading a gun-control protest on the Tennessee House floor.

• National Security

Body-camera footage shows Nashville police officers rushing to confront an elementary school shooter armed with two assault-style weapons.

• National

America’s obsession with the AR-15 has consequences. In policing, the weapon on any given day can be an officer’s greatest threat or their most important tool.

• Justice

Years before the police beating of Tyre Nichols, Memphis relaxed academic, disciplinary and fitness standards for recruits, nine current and former officers said.

• Justice

With the family of Tyre Nichols looking on in the courtroom, a judge schedules the next appearance for fired Memphis police officers for May 1.

• National Security

Residents describe violent tactics allegedly used by the police after Tyre Nichols died.

• National

Memphis police files released this week showed that four of the five officers charged in Tyre Nichols’s death had received past discipline from the department.

• Post Reports

After Tyre Nichols —a young Black man — was beaten to death by police in Memphis, the fact that the five officers charged are Black has prompted activists to grapple with the complex pervasiveness of institutional racism in policing.