Memphis Police Chief Serelyn Davis is fired from her previous job in Atlanta after a failed sex crime investigation.

The Memphis police chief responsible for the five police officers who fatally beat and tasered motorist Tyre Nichols has been fired from his previous law enforcement job following a failed investigation.

Cerelyn “CJ” Davis became the first female police chief in Memphis history in 2021 and is currently in the international spotlight after Tyre Nichols was brutally beaten by five police officers.

She was fired from the Atlanta Police Department in 2008 for alleged involvement in a sex crime investigation against the husband of an Atlanta police sergeant.

Two detectives accused Davis of telling them not to investigate Terrill Marion Crane, who was married to Sgt. Ton Crane after the police department obtained photographs of him with underage girls.

Terrill Crane was later indicted by a federal grand jury for child pornography. According to the newspaper, in 2009 he pleaded guilty to one count of child pornography.

Learn more about the Post’s coverage of Tyre Nichols’ beating death.

The charge came after the Atlanta police took no action on the case, and a subsequent city investigation pointed to Davis as the cause. Davis was demoted from major to lieutenant before being hired from the unit she joined in 2008.