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Knoxville joins Crime Stoppers so tipsters can remain anonymous

View Comments In an effort to erase community hesitancy in reporting violent crimes, Knoxville has joined a program that puts up a barrier between tipsters and police. City leaders on Wednesday announced the creation of the East Tennessee Valley Crime Stoppers Program. It s a tool to help investigators as so many of the city s murders go unsolved, including the deaths of two teens this year. The national program allows anyone to provide anonymous information about criminal activity and pays them in cash if the information leads to an arrest. That emphasis on anonymity was the selling point, Police Chief Eve Thomas said, and she listed it as the reason why community members who were scared to give information to police should feel comfortable using it.

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Knoxville s Black community protests after student deaths

“Wait. Wait. Wait.” But in a flash, a police officer had shot and killed 17-year-old Anthony Thompson Jr. during a short struggle after authorities say a handgun Thompson was carrying went off and struck a trash can. As Thompson lay on the school bathroom floor with officers on top of him, another student who also had been shoved to the ground and handcuffed screamed, “What are you all doing?” The April 12 fatal shooting took place at Austin-East High School, an arts magnet school nestled inside a quiet Knoxville neighborhood near the zoo. A funeral home sits directly across the street. Painted prominently on the road separating the two buildings are the words “Black Lives Matter.”

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In Knoxville, a Black high school contends with a massive rise in teen shootings

In Knoxville, a Black high school contends with a massive rise in teen shootings Constance Every and a student of Austin-East Magnet High School protest the police shooting of Anthony J. Thompson Jr. (Jenny Jarvie / Los Angeles Times) May 2, 2021 3 AM PT KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The Black community that surrounds Austin-East Magnet High School was still mourning its dead four students gunned down this year when the news broke. Another shooting, this one inside the school. With Austin-East in lockdown and police with rifles patrolling the halls, it was hours before officials announced that a fifth student had been fatally shot. For many, this killing was the hardest to take: The shooter was a police officer, and he was Black.

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Knoxville, Tennessee, is reeling after another Black high school student is killed - this time by police

Knoxville, Tennessee, is reeling after another Black high school student is killed - this time by police
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Knoxville, Tennessee, is reeling after another Black high school student is killed -- this time by police

The April 12 police killing of Black teenager Anthony Thompson Jr. inside of a bathroom at Knoxville's Austin-East Magnet High School has sparked a wave of protests throughout the city. Thompson is the school's fifth student to die at the hands of gun violence this year, and many in the Black community say they've reached a boiling point. We go to the frontlines of demonstrations to speak with activists, teachers, and longtime city residents who say they're committed to disrupting the peace in order to call attention to systemic failures plaguing the Black community in Knoxville. CNN's Chris James reports.

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