https://www.wonkette.com/tyre-nichols-police-reform
'On Friday morning, the City of Memphis released the footage of four police
officers beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to death after pulling him over for
"reckless driving" (which has not yet actually been substantiated).
I haven't seen the footage. I can't. I tried and I had to turn it off. So
here's a description from someone at NPR who did.
In the videos, officers are seen dragging Nichols from his car and shouting
profanities throughout the confrontation. An officer tries to deploy a Taser
at Nichols and then begins to chase him on foot. "I'm just trying to go
home," Nichols is heard saying. Later, officers are seen repeatedly kicking,
punching and using a baton to strike Nichols as he lies on the ground. At
one point he's heard yelling "Mom."
This case is a little different than some of the 80 million other cases of
police officers beating Black men to death. For one, the officers involved —
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and
Justin Smith — were Black themselves. For another, they were arrested and
charged immediately and no excuses have been made.
There's a lot going on here. Were the officers immediately arrested because
they were Black and there's no Thin Blue Line for Black officers? Or was it
because those in charge had no inclination to give the police a pass for the
brutal murder of a young man? Because they have a progressive prosecutor who
takes police brutality seriously? It's probably a combination of all of these
things to some degree or another. The aftermath has been handled as well as it
can possibly be handled — but it shouldn't have happened in the first place.'
Via Kenny Chaffin.
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