Desmond Mills Jr. biography: 13 things about former Memphis, Tennessee cop

Desmond Ainsworth Mills Jr. is an American man from Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. He owns D&M Relations, LLC, a company registered in Memphis. 

Mills is 5’10” tall and his registered weight is 297 pounds. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He is a former jailer in Tennessee and Mississippi, USA.
2. He has lived in different parts of Connecticut, USA including Hartford and Bloomfield and in different parts of West Virginia, USA including Charleston and Institute.
3. He previously lived in Bangor, Maine, USA.
4. From 2011 to 2014, he attended West Virginia State University in Institute where he played football.
5. On May 19, 2012, he was initiated as a member of the Omega Psi Phi‘s Sigma Lambda Lambda chapter in Institute.
6. In March 2017, the Memphis Police Department hired him. He became part of the department’s SCORPION unit.
7. On January 7, 2023, he and his fellow Memphis Police Department officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith allegedly caused the injuries of Memphis man Tyre Nichols, who was pronounced dead on January 10, 2023.
8. On January 20, 2023, the Memphis Police Department fired him, Smith, Bean, Haley and Martin.
9. On January 25, 2023, Memphis Police Department chief CJ Davis said he, Smith, Bean, Haley and Martin were found to be directly responsible for the physical abuse of Nichols.
10. On the morning of January 26, 2023, he was arrested and booked into the Shelby County Jail in Memphis. In the afternoon, he posted a $250,000 bond and was released. On January 27, 2023, the video of the confrontation between Nichols, Bean, Haley, Martin, Mills and Smith was released.
11. On February 17, 2023, he pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, official oppression, aggravated kidnapping while possessing a weapon, aggravated assault – acting in concert, official misconduct thru unauthorized exercising of official power, two counts of aggravated kidnapping causing bodily injury and two counts of official misconduct through failure to perform a duty imposed by law.
12. On September 12, 2023, he was federally charged with using excessive force, aiding and abetting each other in using excessive force, failing to intervene to stop excessive force, failing to render medical aid and conspiring or taking action to cover up misconduct.
13. He was 33 years old when he appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Mark S. Norris on November 2, 2023 and pleaded guilty to using excessive force and and conspiring or taking action to cover up misconduct.

(This is a developing story. More details will be added.)