On May 13, Darrin Pigram went to work at a Memphis Burger King. He never came home. A Drug Enforcement Administration agent assigned to the Memphis Safe Task Force shot and killed him there while attempting to serve an arrest warrant.

The agents involved had no body-worn cameras. When surveillance footage from inside the restaurant was released by the Shelby County District Attorney, it told a different story than the one officers gave investigators. None of the videos show Pigram reaching for a weapon in his waistband, as task force agents claimed. District Attorney Steve Mulroy announced he would not pursue charges.

Pigram's death was not an isolated incident. Over the following eight weeks, the Memphis Safe Task Force was involved in three more fatal shootings. All four men killed were Black. In none of these cases has the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation released its investigative files to the public.

This pattern demands a response. When federal agents operate in American cities without body cameras, the public is forced to take their word for what happened, even when video evidence suggests otherwise. That is not accountability.

Congress and the Department of Justice must require mandatory body-worn cameras for all federal agents participating in joint task forces with local law enforcement. The DOJ must also open an independent review of the Memphis Safe Task Force's four fatal shootings.

Sign the petition to demand body cameras on federal task force officers and an independent investigation into what happened in Memphis.