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Days after a rough arrest by police inside of a Mississippi home was caught on video, the police department released body camera footage of the incident and justified their use of "soft hand techniques and taser deployment".

Mark Lesure said what started as a typical afternoon earlier this month of cutting hair in his living room turned violent.

The funeral will be held Thursday, July 20 at 10 a.m. at Greater New Liberty Missionary Baptist Church.

Former Memphis detective Mark LeSure was found dead in his driveway Sunday. A woman has now been charged with stealing his wallet and phone as he lay dying, police said.

A woman is charged with theft and burglary after the body of a retired police officer was looted while he lay unresponsive on his driveway.

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The retired Memphis police officer who criticized police after they beat Tyre Nichols to death, has now died. Mark LeSure’s family members said they found him dead on his driveway on Sunday. “He was in the driveway when we got here, lying face down,” LeSure’s aunt, Rose LeSure-Jones, told WREG-TV. “Whatever it was he didn’t deserve… Continue reading Retired Officer Who Criticized Memphis For Tyre Nichols Found Dead Outside His Home

Police found former Sgt. Mark LeSure dead just after 8 a.m. Sunday morning. The cause of his death is still unclear.

Mark LeSure, a former sergeant with the homicide squad of the Memphis Police Department was found unconscious outside of his Memphis home on Sunday.