Well to be honest in the video the "cops" seem to be more idiots - the chasing, behavior, etc. - than anything. It's very unfortunate that a guy got killed because these morons were hired.
The interesting thing is, does BLM apply when the cops are black themselves? Most BLM protests is about meany white cops.
Yes, this is still a BLM issue despite the police being Black.
Simply ask yourself this:
If the driver in that car was White, would the cops have beaten the shit out of him like they did this young man?
No.
Unfortunately, you can be racist against your own race.
That's what happened here.
Memphis is predominantly Black; about 2/3, I believe. These cops were part of unit that operated in a high-crime area.
From news sources:
"[T]he hand-picked SCORPION team [is[] a specialized unit formed in 2021 to fight violent street crime. The name SCORPION stands for Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods."
"When it was launched in 2021, the SCORPION unit – Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods – was heralded as a direct response to some of the city's worst crime, with a focus on homicides, robberies, assaults and other felonies."
So, being on this unit, those cops were probably edgy to begin with.
So, making a traffic stop in that neighborhood, they likely made the presumption that Nichols was possibly a gang member. I don't know.
Still, Nichols didn't deserve what happened to him although his fleeing didn't help him because that just elevated the anger of the cops who stopped him.
Too bad Nichols and his family moved from Sacramento to Memphis; had he stayed in Sacramento, this sort of thing would not likely have happened.
These 5 cops are charged with second-degree murder.
Here is the statute:
https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/2021/title-39/chapter-13/part-2/section-39-13-210/
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2021 Tennessee Code
Title 39 - Criminal Offenses
Chapter 13 - Offenses Against Person
Part 2 - Criminal Homicide
§ 39-13-210. Second Degree Murder
Universal Citation: TN Code § 39-13-210 (2021)
a. Second degree murder is:
1. A knowing killing of another;
2. A killing of another that results from the unlawful distribution of any Schedule I or Schedule II drug, when the drug is the proximate cause of the death of the user; or
3. A killing of another by unlawful distribution or unlawful delivery or unlawful dispensation of fentanyl or carfentanil, when those substances alone, or in combination with any substance scheduled as a controlled substance by the Tennessee Drug Control Act of 1989, compiled in chapter 17, part 4 of this title and in title 53, chapter 11, parts 3 and 4, including controlled substance analogs, is the proximate cause of the death of the user.
b. In a prosecution for a violation of this section, if the defendant knowingly engages in multiple incidents of domestic abuse, assault or the infliction of bodily injury against a single victim, the trier of fact may infer that the defendant was aware that the cumulative effect of the conduct was reasonably certain to result in the death of the victim, regardless of whether any single incident would have resulted in the death.
c.
1. Second degree murder is a Class A felony.
2. Notwithstanding the Tennessee Criminal Sentencing Reform Act of 1989, compiled in title 40, chapter 35, a person convicted of a violation of subdivision (a)(2) where the victim is a minor shall be punished from within one (1) range higher than the sentencing range otherwise appropriate for the person.
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Based on the wording of that statute above, I am not sure these cops will be convicted.
This statute is more appropriate.
https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/2021/title-39/chapter-13/part-2/section-39-13-211/
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2021 Tennessee Code
Title 39 - Criminal Offenses
Chapter 13 - Offenses Against Person
Part 2 - Criminal Homicide
§ 39-13-211. Voluntary Manslaughter
Universal Citation: TN Code § 39-13-211 (2021)
a. Voluntary manslaughter is the intentional or knowing killing of another in a state of passion produced by adequate provocation sufficient to lead a reasonable person to act in an irrational manner.
b. Voluntary manslaughter is a Class C felony.
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I suspect the cops will take a plea for Voluntary Manslaughter although they might just go to court on the Second Degree Murder charge and take their chances. If I was on that jury, I am not sure I can convict on Second Degree Murder and, if I cannot convict on Voluntary Manslaughter, I might have to acquit. Now, if I am thinking like this, there is a good chance at least one other juror would too and that would lead to an acquittal. Prosecutors need to consider allowing conviction on Voluntary Manslaughter.
It used to be that an ass beating as a part of the pursuit if you run from the cops. That's changed today. These officers didn't get the memo, and they took it entirely too far. As a result, this man is dead. While I don't think they intended to kill him, they still ended up doing it and should be held accountable. This has nothing to do with race in my opinion. That's like a female boss firing a female employee, and being told that she's sexist. Police misconduct like this exists around the country. It just so happens that blacks statistically commit crime at a marginally higher rate than everyone else, so therefore police have these encounters with black people more. This is entirely unjust, and quite disgusting, but I don't think this has to do with race at all.
Black Lives Matter has been proven to be a fraudulent organization. Just look at their balance sheet and investments which is public information. I really hope that BLM doesn't get involved and they just fade out after being exposed the way they have.
That incident is disgusting. I don't think it's possible to put into words how abhorrent, horrific, disgusting, and just plain unacceptable that entire situation was. It is a stain on law enforcement. Citizens have the right to resist an unlawful arrest, and to be honest, I would also refuse to get out of the car and/or try to run away if I were stopped and 5 cops jumped out at me screaming threats at me and using racial slurs. I wouldn't want to get out and deal with them, either.
All of the factors that typically serve to reduce excessive force by cops didn't do anything on this call. The officer being the same race of the subject, and having multiple cops on scene typically reduce the chances of the cops using excessive force. That didn't happen in this case. The conduct of these cops shocks the conscience to a degree that is so wildly unacceptable it's insane.
As to your question on BLM, I don't know. But, speaking as a cop myself, and knowing what I know about that call from what's been released, I think it's safe to say that the cops made a series of completely unacceptable decisions. From start to finish the entire call was unnecessary and horrifying.
I think in this situation we should keep an open mind. We can’t make this racial.
We have to make this legal.
Even if it were to happen to anyone else- handle it swiftly and always give the truest form of justice.
What they did will forever be wrong.
I don’t know their motives- if someone blackmailed them, threatened their career; I don’t know what it could have been.
I just know that it’s terrible he died such a horrific death, and I think regardless of their color they should lose their jobs.
I think the other police should have lost their jobs as well.
What they did was not in good conduct, was inhumane, and unforgivable in the sense it is irreversible.
I suppose forgivable, with the right heart and some time, but forever inexcusable.
My condolences to the family.
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I’d like them to release all the video. It’s easy to take fragments and say: “look! He was beaten to death by police!” What happened during the initial encounter at the traffic stop? Why did it turn violent immediately?
It’s clear from just what was in the video the suspect was resisting arrest as he did in fact escape the police for a period of time.
If someone resists arrest and gets injured or killed, why does it seem we always want to blame the police for this instead of the suspect? Is the suspect in such situations never responsible for what happened?
If these cops did in fact unjustly beat him and did so not in accordance with their duty, the laws, and department regulations then let them pay accordingly. However I think what needs to both be carefully examined by prosecutors and reported by the media is if the suspect was actively resisting arrest which lead to this. We are quick to blame the cop and never the criminal for the outcome of a situation like this.
All I know is 10/10 people who don’t resist arrest don’t end up dead at the hands of police.
Bruh your video shows exactly what we mean.
We didn't even need to have protests. They were immediately arrested because they were black cops.
The protests are when they white cops murder one of us and go bout they business and continue to work because the police immediately side with the white cops.
But as you can see clearly black cops just like black lives do not get the same support as white cops.
If they would start reacting this way when a white cop murders one of us, maybe you wouldn't have to boohoo about blm and white cops.
s This makes me really sad and angry. There are many people who are committing serious crimes and nothing happens to them. I've heard about it on the news and the fact that all police officers were black shocked me. But then again, I learned the hard way that some black people hate black people. These cops abused their power and I truly hope they stay in jail for the rest of their lives.
And yes, Black Lives Matter applies when police officers are black. BLM is not only about racism, it's also about police brutality. That's exactly what happened here.
It's one of the worst things I've watched... one cop pepper sprayed himself and another cop with his own pepper spray, them kicking that guy in the head when he already had handcuffs on. It was messed up and those cops are the reason anyone would hate cops. I watched all the body cams and this CCTV footage.
I doubt BLM will give a shit just because the cops were not white. I bet the mainstream media will also try and sweep this under the rug because the cops were black and not white.
The 5 cops are likely a consequence of Black matriarchal culture where young men substitute absent male (father) mentoring in favor of gang affiliation. My thinking is that this angst cannot be trained out and these cops were merely acting in type. Nothing I have said here is "racist". The roots of this issue and the hugely disproportionate crime rate and rate of imprisonment is the emergence of the War On Poverty out of LBJ's administration, instigated by White Democrats to keep Black Americans voting Democrat and have succeeded for 50 years. This horrific murder is the fault of the same breed of corrupt White Democrats that are working overtime to dismantle the country.
You're being facetious, kiddo.
BLM is not simply about race, but about how bad US cops are. Something known about for a long while. You are eight times more likely to be killed by a US cop than a terrorist, the rate is higher if you're Black.
Tyre Nichols didn't resist arrest, was not a known criminal, and had every reason to be afraid as these "cops" had a reputation before this event.
That Nicols was on camera subject to wolfpacking by feral cops, should be evidence enough why police needs defunding. The whole force needs retraining and rebuilt from scratch.
It's a shame that a majority of bad US cops, give the minority of good US cops a bad name.
ANTIFA is out in full force, but no sign of NLM anywhere, not surprising considering all 5 of the cops in this scenario were one of their own.
But police brutality is police brutality doesn't matter the race and I'm sick and tired of people making this a racial issue. Morgan Freeman had National Geographic do an experiment and they found that a black cop is just as likely to shoot a black perp as a White cop. So having black cops makes no difference whatsoever, except this time they can't claim there is some racial genocide against them.
BLM does not apply here because, unlike George Floyd, Tyre Nichols can't be used as a political tool to divide Americans and fan the flames of racism.
The video confirms what everyone thought, but you won't hear a word about from liberals or the black community... Nichols resisted arrest. Despite the fact that in virtually every infamous case of a black man being killed by police, they resisted. And it's likely that every one of the would still be alive today if they had not.
Why don't liberals focus on something that would actually save most or all of these black lives?
BLM don't care when it blacks killing blacks, and blacks doing it a lot in both US and africa.
Are you kidding me with this? As much as racists cheer on the "Black" people they approve of, you don't know that "Black" people can absorb "White" supremacist dogma, then engage in police brutality? What do you think systemic racism means?
That only the "White" people in the educational and justice systems participate in racist behaviors?
WTF?
I don't get how cops are still doing this... Like there is 5 of you... not one of them thought I don't know... maybe that's enough.. you beat him enough... no? I'll never understand how a group of people can come together and all think the exact same way... to want to seriously injure or kill someone...
I haven't watched the footage yet. I just saw a bunch of Black people complaining about "this is why we need Black police, doing the policing in our neighborhoods" over the past week. They didn't stop to check that the 5 cops were all Black. I found it hilarious that they want more Black police like this in their neighborhoods.
I watched the video last night. An Anonymous user on here said he ran from the cops and that's why what happened to him happened. Normally I would totally agree with this, but in this case it's different. Tyre ran from the cops because they were tasering him and spraying pepper spray in his eyes. I would run too.
My question is why did the cops pull him over to begin with 🤷🏼♀️
The Marxist ideology behind BLM makes no sense, so when it’s clearly contradicted by events like this tragedy of black cops killing a back man, we see Marxists twisting themselves into knots trying to make it fit their extremist nonsense. In doing do, they beclown themselves.
I dont know... i mean... almost no cop would beat someone just to beat someone. In all those cases the "victims" did not followed the instructions of the cops and mostly even try to escape or fight them etc. And i strongly believe the only reason you'll never hear of whites being shot or beaten up is because no media gives a shit about it.
Statistics shows that by far the most people killed by police are in fact white.
BLM has lost credibility. I don't think people will continue to support them once they found out the funds givin to them was used to buy personal mansions.
As far what happened to Trye is a ever concern about American police who get high and drunk off authority and abuse and murder citizens.
Policing and to become a police officer needs to be totally over-hauled because incidents involving police misconduct can't continue.
Stupid question. Of course BLM still applies. Black Lives Matter is about advocating against police brutality. Therefore, it doesn’t matter the color of the police. Police brutality is wrong and it’s wrong against everyone who is treated unfairly by the police
As of this moment there is no validity to any argument against the ownership or even concealed carry of assault weapons in the US, more so it should infact be encouraged as it is evidently a requirement for citizens to have any chance of being able to defend themselves or others from the police.
Well it is also directed at black on black crime and any cops I would've thought. Just any violence towards them is a bad thing so I would imagine they would want to stand up to all of it. Not just those done by white.
WTF is "suspected reckless driving?" The cops were a team of predators. They would have gotten away with murder if they didn't have body cameras.
Prisons are a wonderful place for justice. Corrupt police will see what it is like to be the prey instead of the predator. It won't be long before they're dead. Justice served.
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