There was also an equally volatile and varied set of reactions by civic leaders in those cities as well as protestors.
That all changed in mid-July when Memphis Police officer Connor Schilling pulled over a car with one headlight out on Winchester Road in Hickory Hill, wrote the driver a ticket and after the driver and others in the car had left got into a fight with Darrius Stewart.
The fight ended with Stewart, a passenger in the car wanted on warrants in another state, shot twice by Schilling and fatally wounded.
With that, the movement in Memphis intensified and in some ways the issue grew beyond the borders of the movement to a broader discussion.
And very quickly fundamental changes were made in how such fatal police encounters are handled as a matter of policy.
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