It appears that a group of employees at a Tennessee jail have evaded accountability for a Black inmate who died in the hospital after they reportedly beat, tased and used a chemical agent on him in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Within minutes after David Batts entered the Knox County jail on Jan. 7, Knox County sheriff's officers pepper-sprayed, shocked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family of David Batts, the former Knoxville Area Transit ...

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 ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A man died Wednesday after he was arrested at a Knoxville hospital ER and booked for an assault charge the day before. David Batts, 46, died the night of Jan. 8 at the University of ...

Knox County Sheriff’s Office jail staffers working the day former Knoxville Area Transit employee David Batts died after he was detained there will not be charged, attorney Troy Jones confirmed to ...

David Batts died Jan. 8 after he was beaten by Knox County jail officers the day before. The 46-year-old Knoxville man was disoriented and acting bizarrely when police first encountered him. He was ...

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 ...