A federal trial in Memphis began for three former officers charged with violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols – September 9, 2024

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• A federal trial in Memphis began for three former officers charged with violating the civil rights of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old man whose fatal beating was caught on police cameras and triggered protests and calls for police reform.
• KPFA’s Scott Baba spoke with Chris Hare, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Davis, about the impact presidential debates usually have on the race for the White House and what the two candidates will need to do to move the needle.
• More than a dozen school districts canceled classes across a wide swath of southeastern Kentucky as a grueling search stretched into a third day for a gunman who opened fire on an interstate highway, wounding five people over the weekend.
• James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen, dies at 93.
• The Line Fire in Southern California is threatening homes and commercial structures and forcing evacuations as it burns along the edge of the San Bernardino National Forest, east of Los Angeles.

Former Memphis police officer Justin Smith leaves the federal courthouse after the first day of jury selection of the trial in the Tyre Nichols case Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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