Memphis police chief tasked with investigating Tyre Nichols murder fired at ... trends now

The chief of police in Memphis, Cerelyn 'CJ' Davis, who heads the force on which the officers involved in the fatal beating and tasering of motorist Tyre Nichols, served,  was previously dismissed from a different police force after a flawed investigation.   

Prior to her appointment in Memphis in which she made history as the first female police chief, she had been dismissed from the Atlanta Police Department in 2008 for her role in a sex crimes investigation involving the husband of an Atlanta police sergeant. 

The revelations came as a second night of peaceful protests continued across the US in the wake of the release of tapes showing Nichols' death. 

In the Atlanta investigation, two detectives alleged how Davis instructed them not to investigate Terrill Marion Crane, who was married to sergeant Tonya Crane, despite the department having obtained photos of him with underage girls.

Later, a federal grand jury indicted Terrill Crane on child pornography charges for which he pleaded guilty to in 2009. 

The indictment was issued after the Atlanta Police Department took no action in the case, with a follow-up investigation by the city placing the blame on Davis. 

As a result, she was demoted from major to lieutenant before ultimately being fired from the force. 

Davis became the first black female chief in Memphis one year after George Floyd was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police. At the time, she was chief in Durham, North Carolina, and had called for sweeping police reform. 

Davis has once again come under scrutiny following the actions of the five officers involved in the death of Nichols.  

Cities across the United States saw renewed nonviolent demonstrations on Saturday. In Memphis, protesters chanting, 'Whose streets? Our streets!' angrily catcalled a police car that was monitoring the march, with several making obscene gestures.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in New York's Washington Square Park before marching through Manhattan, as columns of police officers walked alongside them.

In Los Angeles, a small group of Antifa were seen smashing up businesses in what was a second night of rioting following the  release of the Nichols police video.

Protesters in downtown Atlanta repeated Nichols’ name and demanded justice. 

Around 40 people gathered in front of Philadelphia's City Hall to protest the killing. 

More than 80 people marched in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday afternoon to protest the fatal beating.

'How many more are going to die?' Tim Emry asked fellow demonstrators who'd gathered outside the Mecklenburg County Courthouse. 

'Do we stand up when Black kills Black?' asked Melissa Funderburk, a longtime community organizer in Charlotte said to the Charlotte Observer.

'It doesn't matter that it was Black skin in the blue. The point is a mother is crying. It's not OK for them to be killing Black men and women.'

On Saturday, Davis disbanded the city's so-called Scorpion unit citing a 'cloud of dishonor' from videos that showed some of its officers beating Tyre Nichols to death after stopping the black motorist.