Shelby County DA news conference on Gershun Freeman case
Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy spoke on Shelby County Sheriff’s Floyd Bonner’s accusations that indictment of jailers was political.
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Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy spoke on Shelby County Sheriff’s Floyd Bonner’s accusations that indictment of jailers was political.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Nine indictments have been obtained against Shelby County corrections deputies in connection with the death of Gershun Freeman, who died while in jail custody on Oct. 5, 2022. Sheriff Floyd Bonner confirmed the information in an announcement Wednesday. The Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk’s office confirmed the following jailers have turned […]
Few realize that ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ is a term that was foisted on a woman by a male psychiatrist who had never met her after a Swedish bank heist worthy of a movie. Fifty years after the hostage situation that gave the syndrome its name, Sheila Flynn reports on how minds have changed — and how police may have avoided criticism by pathologizing a victim
Few realize that ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ is a term that was foisted on a woman by a male psychiatrist who had never met her after a Swedish bank heist worthy of a movie. Fifty years after the hostage situation that gave the syndrome its name, Sheila Flynn reports on how minds have changed — and how police may have avoided criticism by pathologizing a victim
When hostages sympathize with their captors, there is talk of Stockholm syndrome. The term, coined 50 years ago during a bank robbery that led to a 131-hour hostage drama, is now viewed critically.