Memphis Police Department after Tyre Nichols killing pressured to change : NPR

"They never identified themselves as police, so I was kind of scared. Like I thought I was being robbed." 

They were police – the same members of the so-called Scorpion task force who attacked Tyre Nichols.

"The crime that he committed was that he was in a car while Black."

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198694991/doj-charges-memphis-police-department-tyre-nichols-officers-civil-rights