The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for July 6, 2026. We recorded 1 event from July 5, 2026 and added 7 more from earlier dates — 89 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 639. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

Federalized Tennessee National Guard soldiers fatally shot Tyrin Johnson during Memphis foot pursuit

Event: July 5, 2026 Location: Memphis, Tennessee Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Excessive force by law enforcement, Federal deployment against civilians

Early on the morning of July 5, 2026, two Tennessee National Guard soldiers assigned to the Trump administration's federal Memphis Safe Task Force fatally shot 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson during a foot pursuit in downtown Memphis after he turned toward them while holding a handgun. Johnson was struck twice in the chest and died at the scene despite first aid from Guard medics; the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating at the request of the Shelby County District Attorney. It is the first fatality attributable to the federalized deployment, which has patrolled Memphis since October 2025 over the objection of Mayor Paul Young.

People & Organizations: - Tennessee National Guard (federalized, Memphis Safe Task Force)

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/07/05/federal-excessive-force-by-law-enforcement-7ed40078/ Primary source: National Guard members on patrol in Memphis fatally shoot man during pursuit, police say

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we archived yesterday. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• June 1, 2026 — Tennessee Health Dept. threatened to report disabled immigrant children to state immigration-enforcement division
• June 9, 2026 — ICE arrested Cumberland County jail officer despite valid work authorization; third such detention in a year
• June 17, 2026 — GWAR frontman said in a June 17 podcast interview that the Secret Service had contacted the band over a mock execution of a Trump effigy
• June 18, 2026 — United States deported about a dozen court-protected asylum seekers to Sierra Leone on second third-country flight
• June 18, 2026 — DOJ Civil Rights Division opened a religious-discrimination inquiry into MLB and referred it to the EEOC over Giants' Pride Night Bible-verse caps
• June 19, 2026 — Florida's attorney general opened a religious-discrimination investigation into MLB and subpoenaed it over Giants' Pride Night Bible-verse caps
• July 4, 2026 — The New York Times reported federal civil-rights agencies abandoned active discrimination cases at Trump's direction