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| Herbert Slatery |
The opinion, dated Aug. 25 and made public last week, garnered statewide attention because it hinges on the absence of a comma in the relevant state law.
But it’s also the latest entry in a chronicle that began July 17 when Memphis police officer Connor Schilling shot and killed Darrius Stewart, a passenger in a car Schilling pulled over for a traffic violation. Paired with the fatal shooting of Memphis police officer Sean Bolton two weeks later – allegedly by Tremaine Wilbourn, also a passenger in a car – the two incidents have become bookends of an already simmering local version of the national discussion about how police do their jobs.
State Rep. Antonio Parkinson, D-Memphis, sought the attorney general’s opinion. It comes seven weeks after District Attorney General Amy Weirich turned the case over to the TBI and one week after the TBI completed its investigation and sent a 600-page report to Weirich.
Her office is reviewing the report, and she has released no information on the conclusion of the investigation.
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