TN: National Guardsmen Open Fire on Suspect, Killing Him | Drudge Retort

Tuesday, July 07, 2026

TN: National Guardsmen Open Fire on Suspect, Killing Him

In Memphis TN, TBI agents are investigating the shooting death of Tyrin Johnson (20) by two soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard assigned to the Memphis Safe Task Force.

Bringing the warzone home

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-07 01:50 AM | Reply

"Evaniel Johnson said he is waiting to see if video footage supports the police narrative that his 20-year-old grandson, Tyrin Johnson, turned toward U.S. guard members with a gun while running from them early Sunday. Memphis police say the guard members were responding to a report of gunfire."

"Show me the video," Evaniel Johnson told The Associated Press. "Please show me that " and then I'm OK. Until you show me that, I'm gonna fight and advocate for my grandson until there's no breath in me."

Johnson, a former correctional officer with the Davidson County Sheriff's Office in Nashville, disputes that his grandson would have tried to fire a gun at U.S. guard members and that deadly force would be needed if he was running away. His grandson, he said, was "no hoodlum."

According to his grandfather, Tyrin Johnson carried a gun for protection after being "jumped" recently in Nashville and was likely wary about being attacked again over a murky social media feud.
apnews.com

Show the man the damn video.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-07 08:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Now that this box is opened, there will be more.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-07 08:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Another future doctor gone. LOL!

#4 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-07-07 08:43 AM | Reply

Joining you at the business end of a squawk box?

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-07 11:31 AM | Reply

In all of the Army National Guard deployments to "restore order" or quash the civil rights movement in the 1960s, I couldn't find any reports of fatalities from either the angry citizens or the Soldiers.

And not one Ohio Army National Guardsman who opened fire on the unarmed Kent State students on 4 May 1970 was ever brought to justice for the massacre (four students killed, nine wounded).

One plank for a winning POTUS 2028 platform: "I will never deploy the Army National Guard onto America's streets. Ever."

A slice of ARNG history: www.youtube.com

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-07 03:03 PM | Reply

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