Tyre Nichols family saw the Memphis Cops body cam footage today

[irisblue]

My first post on this
https://democraticunderground.com/100217577596

WaPo article, no paywall
https://wapo.st/3D8urgO

**graphic images in the stories**
Local TV station
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/tyre-nichols-family-news-conference-meeting-city-memphis-police-mpd/522-417ea0b0-fa37-47d1-9d40-a71fd066ae58


snip-"MEMPHIS, Tenn — The Shelby County District Attorney's office said the release of video footage of the arrest of Tyre Nichols, which led to five Memphis Police officers being fired after Nichols died in the hospital, could come "this week or next."

Relatives of Tyre Nichols met with city officials Monday morning to view video footage of the Jan. 7 arrest, according to attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family."

snip-Attorney Antonio Romanucci said Nichols was "defenseless" and a "human piñata" for police officers, and said Nichols was beaten for three minutes. "It was unabashed, nonstop beating. That is what is going to show up in that video," said Romanucci.

He called the beating "savage." He said the officers were in unmarked cars, and wanted to know why they are conducting traffic stops. "Let's call this what it is; this is a racist traffic stop... These police officers knew it in their mind they could get away with this."

More at sources.

[SheltieLover]

1. The 5 cops have been fired & pictures of them show them also as Black.

[ret5hd]

2. More importantly they were blue.

[SheltieLover]

3. Absolutely!

[magicarpet]

14. And Mr. Nichols,.

... was black and blue - head to toe....

[SheltieLover]

16. I saw the pix of his face...

[magicarpet]

18. 6ft4inches ... 145 to 150 lbs,... extremely tall and lean...

..... the photo of his face on the hospital bed looked like a 250 lb. chubby man. He was all swelled and swollen up from having been beaten to his death.

Poor guy,... all due to a traffic stop.

[SheltieLover]

21. Just no words for this...

[irisblue]

6. Some of the dregs of the internet have been saying

black on black crime.

[SheltieLover]

9. I just wasn't sure if this is now a thing for Black officers to kill Black men.

I've been mostly avoiding nrws lately for health reasons.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. It's almost like the problem is the institution itself.

[SheltieLover]

4. Here is another local article, showing 5 cops' pix

https://wreg.com/news/local/tyre-nichols/tyre-nichols-and-memphis-police-confrontation-what-we-know/

[irisblue]

5. Now Fire Dept ppl are involved per a local reporter twitter

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

11. WTF??? 🤬

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Fuck the police. ACAB. K&R.

[aocommunalpunch]

17. +1

ACAB. It just never ends. The barrel is spoiled AF.

[Picaro]

10. This one wasn't traditional racism

This was pure tribalism. Tyler wasn’t a cop and he pissed them off.

This was an expression of the absolute power of life and death cops on the streets have. Absolute power is absolutely corrupting.

All cops, because of one insane Supreme Court ruling after another, have a license to kill. Just like James Bond.

I’ve lost count of the videos I’ve seen where a group of pissed off cops lose their shit and beat their prey to death.

That’s very much how they view it. The citizens are prey and they’re the wolves.

I read an article last week that gave me some small measure of hope that we as a country might be able to deal with this. But it’s not from legislation or some sort of reform movement.

What’s going on is the insurance companies are getting sick and tired of paying these claims.

There have already been a number of towns that had a very big policing problem that either had their insurance canceled or they have been forced to make substantial changes in their policing methodology.

To fix this there has to be an absolute requirement that the cops de-escalate where at all possible. The legal system does not force this on them now and also gives them qualified immunity against chargers when they cross the line.

[SheltieLover]

12. Police should be required to buy their own, individual prof liability ins like other professionals!

Can't get ins? No job!!!

[Picaro]

13. Great idea!

Never crossed my mind but that would change pretty much everything very quickly.

[SheltieLover]

15. Except we would need to get rid of qualified immunity to make this a reality.

As things stand, taxpayers, not ins companies pay big whegn verdicts are handed down.

[JanLip]

19. That poor family

I feel so sorry for them.

[dalton99a]

20. The murderers:

[SheltieLover]

22. Fired, but they need to be charged with murder!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

23. you know it's bad when the fire the cops immediately

[live love laugh]

24. Actually you know they're black when they fire the cops immediately.

Not defending these cops I just wish all of them were treated the same way.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

25. you may have a point there