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Grieving residents urge outside investigation after alleged in-custody deaths; officials cite TBI and litigation limits
Summary
During a Knox County workshop several residents, including a mother who said her son was beaten and later died, demanded outside investigations and community-based meetings; officials responded that in-custody deaths are referred to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and some matters are in litigation.
Several emotional public commenters accused the detention facility and county law enforcement of misconduct and asked for independent, outside investigations into in-custody deaths.
A family member, identified in the transcript as Speaker 7, addressed the sheriff and the commissioners: “My son got literally got beat to death,” she said, describing injuries and photographs she said she possessed and urging accountability. Other residents described family members who died or were injured after…
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