- A fire broke out early Saturday morning at the Senatobia Police Department in Mississippi, prompting an arson investigation by local authorities and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
- The police department has faced mounting public outrage following the June shooting death of one-year-old Kohen Wiley, a Black child killed by an officer during a shoplifting investigation at a Walmart.
- Sergeant Hunter Foster, the officer involved in the fatal shooting of Wiley, resigned earlier this month after the Mississippi Attorney General's office cleared him of criminal wrongdoing.
- The department faced further scandal in September when investigative news reports revealed that Police Chief Harold Hal Vanderford repeatedly used racist slurs in private text messages.
- Following the text message revelations, the Senatobia Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to fire Vanderford, rejecting a resignation letter he had submitted earlier that day.
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