The four entered the commission meeting April 19, 2021. They say they were trying to force release of KPD bodycam in the killing of Anthony Thompson Jr.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Four people accused of disrupting a Knox County Commission meeting in April 2021 are facing a jury of their peers this week in Knox County Criminal Court.
Constance Every, the Rev. Calvin Skinner, Arron Valentine and Gavin Guinn entered the April 19, 2021, meeting intent on pushing for release of police bodycam video recorded the week previous when an Austin-East High School student was shot to death during a confrontation with Knoxville Police Department officers, defense attorneys say.
Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen was overseeing the investigation into the shooting of 17-year-old Anthony Thompson Jr. by a KPD officer. Thompson had a loaded pistol at the time during the confrontation in an Austin-East bathroom.
Knox County and the …
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