The Memphis, Tenn., Police Department is immersed in federal and state corruption investigations for illegally spending cash seized in drug investigations. They shot and killed Ismael Mena, a Mexican immigrant who was not involved in illegal drugs. Earlier this year, just as the controversy surrounding Mena's death became public, Chief Tom Sanchez flew to Hawaii with staff members on police business. In The Box restaurant in June during a drug investigation. The two men were unarmed, information the department refused to release for two days, and one man was not a suspect.
Police say the men tried to run over the officer and the agent.
The shooting occurred in the afternoon as people sat in the eatery. A grand jury is investigating. In fact, the department had failed to respond to 80 percent or 3,550 court orders this year that sent the money to the other state agencies. Last year police fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo, an unarmed man standing in a doorway. He was struck 19 times and died.