Tennessee State Senator Taylor Demands Answers From DA For Refusing Charges For Court Clerk’s Tirade Against Police

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Tennessee Conservative News Staff –

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy and Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis-D31) are continuing their debate over calls for the resignation of General Sessions Court Clerk Tami Sawyer after she was caught on tape verbally assaulting law enforcement officers.

The video, which was shared last October, shows Sawyer yelling at officers who refused to let private security into the courthouse with a gun.

“After General Sessions Court Clerk Tami Sawyer allegedly attempted to facilitate getting a firearm into the Shelby County Courthouse for her ‘private security,’ the Shelby County Sheriffs rightfully stopped the individual with the gun,” Taylor said in a post on social media. “What followed was an absolute embarrassment: Sawyer erupted in a tirade, screaming racial epithets and degrading the officers who were simply enforcing the law and protecting the public by preventing an armed private citizen from entering the courthouse at 140 Adams Ave.”

Sawyer claimed she needed private security because of threats she had received.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation looked into the incident. After that investigation, DA Mulroy’s office made the decision that no crime had been committed, so no charges would be pursued.

Taylor released the following statement regarding the investigation:

“Last month, in yet another attempt to gaslight the public, DA Mulroy announced that, ‘after a thorough review of the facts,’ his office declined to pursue criminal charges against General Sessions Court Clerk Tami Sawyer for allegedly knowingly facilitating a security guard bringing a gun into the courthouse. I guess his explanation makes sense if you don’t think about it.

However, I have it on good authority that DA Mulroy’s request for an investigation to the TBI so severely narrowed the scope that it was impossible to fully investigate the situation. It is my understanding that the TBI could only interview one individual, and Mulroy perhaps limited the TBI’s ability to fully inquire into whether “Tirade Tami” specifically instructed, requested, or knowingly allowed the security guard to enter the courthouse armed or to evade security.

Why does Mulroy want to severely limit the TBI’s investigation? Why not allow interviews with the Sheriff’s office and security personnel? Why not interview additional security guards? Why not review surveillance footage? Why not interview “Tirade Tami” herself? Why did he restrict the TBI’s ability to conduct a completely open and independent investigation?

Because: Our Soros-backed DA has a fundamental integrity problem in how he runs his office. We’ve seen it time and time again. And then he gaslights the public on crime stats, on office initiatives, and now on this investigation of Tirade Tami Sawyer.

My message to the DA is simple: I am demanding that DA Mulroy RELEASE THE “TIRADE TAMI” FILES! If you stand by your decision, release the files and let the public see how you exercised your discretion.

To #MakeMemphisMatter, I will continue to hold Mulroy accountable. I will not let him be the weak-link in the unprecedented opportunity presented by the Memphis Safe Task Force.”

Mulroy sent the following response to FOX13 News:

“Sen. Taylor is characteristically misinformed on many fronts. First, state law forbids this office from releasing the TBI investigative file. Second, contrary to Sen. Taylor’s assertion, our office, including me personally, did in fact review the video footage of the incident, which included all the interactions of the deputies with Clerk Sawyer. Had any of that indicated any reason to suspect Clerk Sawyer of committing a crime, we would have interviewed her as well.

Sen. Taylor has political animosity toward Clerk Sawyer and political reasons for trying to sow doubt about the TBI investigation. In contrast, we make decisions not based on politics but on the facts and the law.”