KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — The Knox County Sheriff's Office released bodycam footage weeks after a man was hospitalized and died after being in county custody. The Knox County District Attorney General's ...

Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family of David Batts, the former Knoxville Area Transit employee who died after he left the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility ...

David Batts Sr.'s wife and son plan to sue the University of Tennessee Medical Center on malpractice claims and the Knox County Sheriff's Office over the use of excessive force, the family announced ...

Within minutes after David Batts entered the Knox County jail on Jan. 7, Knox County sheriff's officers pepper-sprayed, shocked him with a Taser four times and punched him as they tried to get him to ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The family of David Batts, Sr. and Attorney Ben Crump announced they’ll be taking legal action against University of Tennessee Medical Center. Crump held a press conference ...

David Leon Batts was born on October 13, 1978, in Knoxville to Larry Lavell Batts and Monnie Marie Flack Nolan. He was a graduated of Fulton High School. He is preceded in death by grandparents Bishop ...